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One Fat Englishman [New York Review Books Classics] by Amis, Kingsley , paperbac

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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9781590176627

Book Title: One Fat Englishman

Item Length: 8in

Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

Publication Year: 2013

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 0.4in

Author: Kingsley. Amis

Genre: Fiction

Topic: Satire, Literary, Humorous / General

Item Width: 5in

Item Weight: 7 Oz

Number of Pages: 192 Pages

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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.

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Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-10

1590176626

ISBN-13

9781590176627

eBay Product ID (ePID)

160049276

Product Key Features

Book Title

One Fat Englishman

Author

Kingsley. Amis

Format

Trade Paperback

Language

English

Topic

Satire, Literary, Humorous / General

Publication Year

2013

Genre

Fiction

Number of Pages

192 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

8in

Item Height

0.4in

Item Width

5in

Item Weight

7 Oz

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Reviews

"In the light of Amis's subsequent literary development, and all the biographical information that has emerged since his death, it seems a much more comprehensible and interesting novel--also much funnier, in its black way, than I remembered.... One Fat Englishman is certainly a much less comfortable read than Lucky Jim , but no longer seems as inferior to it as I once thought." --David Lodge, The Guardian "[Protagonist] Roger Micheldene is a fat, slothful, lecherous and wrathful English publisher in the United States on as little business as he can get away with. This novel chronicles his attempts to drink as many drinks, eat as many meals and seduce as many women during his short stay as is humanly possible." -- The New York Times Book Review "Very funny...splendidly slapstick...and serious too.... A satire of wit and intelligence that class it with the best." -- The Times Literary Supplement "Amis's funniest novel since Lucky Jim ." -- Newsweek "The book is an underhand attack on the Englishman at large.... Amis gets in a few telling swipes at Americans and nymphomaniacs and gourmets and the people in publishing business and anything you care to mention and manages at the same time to write a beautifully witty novel." -- Vogue "Mr. Amis is a subtle writer.... He has managed to write a commentary on America without seeming to write a commentary on America." -- The Washington Post "Whatever happened to Lucky Jim? He got fat. That's the answer Kingsley Amis gives us ten years and four novels on and many people are going to find it hilariously diverting. Rightly so." -- Birmingham Post "The conversation is corrosive; and the characterizations, wickedly penetrating. Not to be missed." -- Publishers Weekly "Roger Micheldene, the fat Englishman, who is the titular hero of Kingsley Amis's new novel, is easily the most repulsive figure that the imaginative Amis has invented so far, and that is saying a good deal." -- Chicago Tribune "Like the early Evelyn Waugh, Amis has perfected the cool contemptuous tone so necessary to the comedy of bestiality, an extreme form of caricature that permits no faltering sympathy for its subject. Technically, the novel is virtually without flaw." -- The Washington Post "Kingsley Amis writes of his fat Englishman with a mixture of contempt and sympathy. The sympathy is hard to share." -- The New York Times, "Amis's funniest novel since Lucky Jim ." -- Newsweek "Very funny...splendidly slapstick...and serious too.... A satire of wit and intelligence that class it with the best." -- The Times Literary Supplement "The book is an underhand attack on the Englishman at large.... Amis gets in a few telling swipes at Americans and nymphomaniacs and gourmets and the people in publishing business and anything you care to mention and manages at the same time to write a beautifully witty novel." -- Vogue "Whatever happened to Lucky Jim? He got fat. That's the answer Kingsley Amis gives us ten years and four novels on and many people are going to find it hilariously diverting. Rightly so." -- Birmingham Post "In the light of Amis's subsequent literary development, and all the biographical information that has emerged since his death, it seems a much more comprehensible and interesting novel--also much funnier, in its black way, than I remembered.... One Fat Englishman is certainly a much less comfortable read than Lucky Jim , but no longer seems as inferior to it as I once thought." --David Lodge, The Guardian "[Protagonist] Roger Micheldene is a fat, slothful, lecherous and wrathful English publisher in the United States on as little business as he can get away with. This novel chronicles his attempts to drink as many drinks, eat as many meals and seduce as many women during his short stay as is humanly possible." -- The New York Times Book Review "Mr. Amis is a subtle writer.... He has managed to write a commentary on America without seeming to write a commentary on America." -- The Washington Post "The conversation is corrosive; and the characterizations, wickedly penetrating. Not to be missed." -- Publishers Weekly "Roger Micheldene, the fat Englishman, who is the titular hero of Kingsley Amis's new novel, is easily the most repulsive figure that the imaginative Amis has invented so far, and that is saying a good deal." -- Chicago Tribune "Like the early Evelyn Waugh, Amis has perfected the cool contemptuous tone so necessary to the comedy of bestiality, an extreme form of caricature that permits no faltering sympathy for its subject. Technically, the novel is virtually without flaw." -- The Washington Post "Kingsley Amis writes of his fat Englishman with a mixture of contempt and sympathy. The sympathy is hard to share." -- The New York Times, "In the light of Amis's subsequent literary development, and all the biographical information that has emerged since his death, it seems a much more comprehensible and interesting novel-also much funnier, in its black way, than I remembered.... One Fat Englishman is certainly a much less comfortable read than Lucky Jim , but no longer seems as inferior to it as I once thought." -David Lodge, The Guardian "[Protagonist] Roger Micheldene is a fat, slothful, lecherous and wrathful English publisher in the United States on as little business as he can get away with. This novel chronicles his attempts to drink as many drinks, eat as many meals and seduce as many women during his short stay as is humanly possible." - The New York Times Book Review "Very funny...splendidly slapstick...and serious too.... A satire of wit and intelligence that class it with the best." - The Times Literary Supplement "Amis's funniest novel since Lucky Jim ." - Newsweek "The book is an underhand attack on the Englishman at large.... Amis gets in a few telling swipes at Americans and nymphomaniacs and gourmets and the people in publishing business and anything you care to mention and manages at the same time to write a beautifully witty novel." - Vogue "Mr. Amis is a subtle writer.... He has managed to write a commentary on America without seeming to write a commentary on America." - The Washington Post "Whatever happened to Lucky Jim? He got fat. That's the answer Kingsley Amis gives us ten years and four novels on and many people are going to find it hilariously diverting. Rightly so." - Birmingham Post "The conversation is corrosive; and the characterizations, wickedly penetrating. Not to be missed." - Publishers Weekly "Roger Micheldene, the fat Englishman, who is the titular hero of Kingsley Amis's new novel, is easily the most repulsive figure that the imaginative Amis has invented so far, and that is saying a good deal." - Chicago Tribune "Like the early Evelyn Waugh, Amis has perfected the cool contemptuous tone so necessary to the comedy of bestiality, an extreme form of caricature that permits no faltering sympathy for its subject. Technically, the novel is virtually without flaw." - The Washington Post "Kingsley Amis writes of his fat Englishman with a mixture of contempt and sympathy. The sympathy is hard to share." - The New York Times

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