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'Few have been as perceptive or funny about bad behaviour as Amis' (Daily Telegraph )
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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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Are all yanks disgusting fools? Will any woman sleep with me? These are just two of the questions facing Roger Micheldene. He is the epitome of arrogant Englishman abroad. Amis succeeds in illustrating the crisis which occurs when old world meets new and two languages collide. Micheldene is perhaps the most odious hero in fiction, yet you still feel levels of empathy. Go on buy this book and help get all of Amis' books back in print.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read several Amis novels recently, and I have noticed that they all seem to be written at a different pace. 'Take a Girl Like You', for instance, is carefully constructed, an artful comic novel. 'I Like it Here', is a very relaxed meditation, full of droll asides, almost Amis talking to himself.
'One Fat Englishman' however is a full on assault. Micheldene is fat, lustful, greedy and has a Rottweiler of a temper. On the other hand, he is searingly bright and hilarious.
This book could not be published today. No publisher would print, I shouldn't think, a novel containing so many comments so overtly sexist and racist.
Another point: I should think you could read this novel as a commentary on Anglo-American relations at any time since 1774.
Unmissable.
'One Fat Englishman' however is a full on assault. Micheldene is fat, lustful, greedy and has a Rottweiler of a temper. On the other hand, he is searingly bright and hilarious.
This book could not be published today. No publisher would print, I shouldn't think, a novel containing so many comments so overtly sexist and racist.
Another point: I should think you could read this novel as a commentary on Anglo-American relations at any time since 1774.
Unmissable.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Looked a riot of humour, ornate language and acerbic observation on Americanism. Turned out to be none of these. Moderately amusing in parts, but often uncomfortable and unnecessarily unpleasant. The plot became convoluted and lost and the principal character implausible. Some great cameos and farcical drink fuelled awkwardness but overshadowed by a distinct lack of connection and emotional empathy.
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