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Narrated by:
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Leighton Pugh
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By:
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Kingsley Amis
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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 is a devastating satire on Anglo-American relations.
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- Jonathan Mark Sidaway
- 01-09-24
Revelatory
He's v good at not mispronouncing anything (which I noticed anyroad) that could be misuttered out of modern unfamiliarity, is LP. Had moreover never much liked this Nincompoop's Progress through provincial America; love it now. The great warning to wiseacres, this novel.
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- David J James
- 01-02-24
I finally read it.
I first saw this title in Polish in the collection of my ex-mothrt in law. I think she had bought it to try to get some insights into who her daughter had married.
I meant to read it myself and never really found a paper copy of the English original, and now, a third of a century later, I have read it. And I have only read it because I didn't need to read it, Leighton Pugh does that and a marvellous job he does too. I would certainly listen to other work by the same voice artist.
What can I say? A bit of a darker, grotesquer, less likeable but somehow still relatable Lucky Jim.
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