Kingsley Amis

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One Fat EnglishmanPaperback, 17 September 2013

One Fat Englishman
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Part of Series
New York Review Books Classics
Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Date Published
17 Sep 2013
ISBN-10
1590176626
ISBN-13
9781590176627

Description

The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self. In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock, stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble ("It was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children"), and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece--about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring--is one of Kingsley Amis's greatest and most caustic performances.

Product Details

Author:
Kingsley Amis
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 September 2013
Dimensions:
20.32 x 12.7 x 1.27 cm
ISBN-10:
1590176626
ISBN-13:
9781590176627
Language:
English
Pages:
192
Weight:
199.58 gm

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