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Roger Micheldene, an English publisher, is on the loose in the U.S. He spends an October week shuttling between New York and Budweiser College in Pennsylvania. This exercises all his British appetites...snobbery, gluttony, anger, sloth and lust.
But Amis roasts Americans as well and serves us familiar dishes, though in a piquant sauce: the precocious undergraduate author of a far-out novel, an earnest young priest, and an alcoholic literary agents nymphomaniacal wife.
"They are all presented with glee and gusto and the keenest wit, but it is Roger Micheldene--at once a prototype of the insufferable Englishman and an individual with sufficient humor to win our sneaking sympathy--who dominates a supremely entertaining comedy of bad manners." (Publisher's Source)
Genre: General Fiction
But Amis roasts Americans as well and serves us familiar dishes, though in a piquant sauce: the precocious undergraduate author of a far-out novel, an earnest young priest, and an alcoholic literary agents nymphomaniacal wife.
"They are all presented with glee and gusto and the keenest wit, but it is Roger Micheldene--at once a prototype of the insufferable Englishman and an individual with sufficient humor to win our sneaking sympathy--who dominates a supremely entertaining comedy of bad manners." (Publisher's Source)
Genre: General Fiction
Used availability for Kingsley Amis's One Fat Englishman
Hardback Editions
May 1988 : UK Hardback
December 1963 : UK Hardback
October 1964 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
September 2013 : USA Paperback
June 2011 : UK Paperback
April 1989 : USA Paperback
August 1975 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
December 2020 : USA Audio edition
December 2020 : Australia Audio edition
December 2020 : UK Audio edition
Kindle Editions
September 2013 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
June 2011 : Australia, UK Kindle edition