Mark's review
One Fat Englishman
by Kingsley Amis
Mark's review
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
Mark's review
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Hilarious and fascinating: a youngish, and still-reputedly-socialist Kingsley Amis predicts his future as an obese bigoted alcoholic womanizer with astonishing accuracy. Kingsley rarely wastes his words, and his ability to put across comic situations is peerless (well, except for his son Martin). Here we get a darker, nastier version of his usual sexual shenanigans, with some attempted mockery of America thrown in for good measure (the novel is set in a fictional southern college called... Budweiser University). These rubber arrows almost never hit their mark, but when you enter into the booze-soaked priapic maze of the title character's brain, you will not stop laughing.
