One Fat Englishman Iain Banks and wonders if she is

and wonders if she is a way out of his dilemma

This unlikely group of people are brought together by their quest for the meaning of life

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Zen travels north to an Italy as outwardly serene as Naples was manic

One Fat Englishman Iain Banks and wonders if she isBrimming 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