{"product_id":"9781590176894","title":"One Fat Englishman","description":"The hero of \u003ci\u003eOne Fat Englishman\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary publisher and lapsed  Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of  Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken,  bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous  spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self.  In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban  housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock,  stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble (“It was no  wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children”),  and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating  overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare  to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece—about the  1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of  a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World  offspring—is one of Kingsley Amis’s greatest and most caustic  performances.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157159493872,"sku":"9781590176894","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590176894_p0.jpg?v=1763802747","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590176894","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}