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One fat Englishman / Kingsley Amis ; introduction by David Lodge.
- Title
- One fat Englishman / Kingsley Amis ; introduction by David Lodge.
- Author
- Amis, Kingsley
- Publication
- New York, NY : New York Review Books, 2013.
- ©1963
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR6001.M6 O5 2013 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Lodge, David, 1935-
- Description
- xi, 162 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- New York review books classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Humorous fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781590176627 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013015575
- OCLC
- 825733401
- SCSB-10562714
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library