· Roger Micheldene, the titular Fat Englishman, a libidinous book publisher abroad in America, is a strikingly loathsome creation, and the assortment of writers, students, intellectuals and linguists he encounters at various parties and functions in and around the campus of the fictional Budweiser college (standing in for Princeton, where Amis was a lecturer in the lates) – and their . Buy One Fat Englishman (Penguin Modern Classics) by Amis, Kingsley (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. One Fat Englishman (Penguin Modern Classics): www.doorway.ru: Amis, Kingsley: Books/5(29). · ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN. by Kingsley Amis ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 26, Kingsley Amis, who has often claimed that his intention was to write funny books, has never succeeded in doing so as well as he did in Lucky Jim. This is certainly his sharpest book since that first one although it is probably closer to iconoclastic satire than irreverent comedy. The One Fat Englishman of the title Author: Kirkus Reviews.
INSCRIBED TO BRIAN ALDISS. AMIS, Kingsley One Fat Englishman. Gollancz, First edition. Author's presentation copy to fellow novelist, Brian Aldiss, inscribed on publication, "To good old Brian who knows a masterpiece when he sees one* / Kingsley/ *Oxford Mail Supplement 21/xi/63". Aldiss's ownership signature in pencil to the front endpaper. Author: Kingsley Amis ISBN Title: One Fat Englishman Item Condition: used item in a very good condition. Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Published On: SKU: This is a first edition copy of this work by Kingsley Amis. Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher who wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poe One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis.
ONE FAT ENGLISHMAN. Amis, Kingsley. Published by Penguin rpt (50+ other books by this author available.) Format: paperback. Reduced postage on multiple orders., Kingsley Amis is the kind of writer who can give misogyny a bad name. Roger Micheldene, the One Fat Englishman of the title, is gluttonous, alcoholic and adulterous, but mostly just hateful and insufferably British. I winced a lot. What I did like though was how One Fat Englishman got its title. One Fat Englishman, published by Victor Gollancz in Now, once or twice during this run of posts I've suggested that there is more warmth, more, as Kingsley's son, Martin Amis, put it, "reckless generosity" in Amis p è re's novels than those who are only familiar with his reputation – i.e his endlessly regurgitated, perennially picked-over failings – rather than with his work.
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