One Fat Englishman

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

Price: $80.00

Hardcover. First edition. Light offsetting to the endpapers, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine.

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Item #34494 One Fat Englishman. Kingsley AMIS.

Kingsley Amis
birth name: Kingsley William Amis
born: 4/16/1922
died: 10/22/1995

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Biography

Novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who created in his first novel, Lucky Jim (1954; film, 1957), a comic figure who became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s. Amis was generally grouped among the angry young men, though he denied the affiliation. He was the father of writer Martin Amis.more