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  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141961842
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

One Fat Englishman





Amis's hilarious satire on Anglo-American relations, part of a new series of reissues of his work in Penguin Modern Classics

Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger's undoing? Irving Macher, the young author of an annoyingly brilliant first novel? Father Colgate, the priest who suggests that Roger's soul is in torment? Or will it be his married ex-lover Helene? One thing is certain - Roger is heading for a terrible fall.

Outrageously funny and irreverent, One Fat Englishman (1963) is a devastating satire on Anglo-American relations.

With a new introduction by David Lodge.

  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141961842
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

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Praise for One Fat Englishman

'Few have been as perceptive or funny about bad behaviour as Amis'

Daily Telegraph
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