Possible Clues:

• Strength of character around university at a minimum — it's weak
• European and smart American turned up offering no resistance
• Drink at home to end of bottle, face up on the floor
• Drink in excess initially has you laid out
• Lying down in suite, finally, after drink
• Not prone
• Apathetic, initially underrating boring part of book
• Lying back, absorbing sun, bare
• Prone to drink plonk, taking cap off
• Back round university, indolent