by Kingsley Amis · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140024173
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One Fat Englishman is a novel by British author Kingsley Amis, published in 1963. The story follows Roger Micheldene, a corpulent and hedonistic English publisher, in his misadventures in the United States. Through his perspective, Amis offers a biting satire of Anglo-American relations, American culture, and cultural prejudices. The novel is known for its acerbic humor and its portrayal of an unconventional and flawed protagonist.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
