The Inscrutable Americans

An old book by Anurag Mathur, out in 1991 and probably written in the eighties. Didnt like it much. The main protagonist was too much like Hurree Jamset Ram Singh of Billy Bunter and his American friend too much like Wodehouse's Psmith. In fact the writing had a British rather than American flavour. Except for the first couple of pages, wasnt funny and even less believable - how can a person who supposedly read Archie comics and saw Saturday Night Fever on video in India, not know about American football, cheerleaders and a million other commonplace Americanisms? The brevity (after Stephen King's Stand) was welcome.