Fat Boy

by Peter Meares

Bill Fantin, in his late teens, was variously described as a slob, a sentimentalist, a vulgar lout, a benign carthorse. Tall and grossly overweight, with a defective heart, Bill was a dreamer, a sensualist, delusionist and clown. ‘Fat Boy’ describes the final episodes of Bill's life, his infatuation for Stephen a boy he meets on the Oxford train and for his attractive cousin Dani. His struggle to find happiness in human relationships, the almost inevitable failure and disappointment.

220 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963