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...protagonist is a late-model Amis antihero, middle-age division, of the type first launched in One Fat Englishman. Irascible and hypochondriacal, Maurice Allington runs The Green Man pub outside London, drinks a quart of Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Spleen | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

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