One Fat Englishman (New York Review Books Classics)

One Fat Englishman (New York Review Books Classics)

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 (â€œIt was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as childrenâ€), 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 masterpieceâ€”about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspringâ€”is one of Kingsley Amisâ€™s greatest and most caustic performances.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-09-17
Format Kindle eBook

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