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One Fat Englishman
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Leighton Pugh
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 March 2023
- Run Time
- 6 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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, 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.
Critics Review
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“Very funny…splendidly slapstick…and serious too…A satire of wit and intelligence that class it with the best.”
Times Literary Supplement (London)
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Details
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Leighton Pugh
- Duration
- 6 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 March 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212185271
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Satirical fiction and parodies, Classic fiction, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
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, 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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