Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent,mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed,Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is,until,he meets the aloof,wildly unattainable,Rachel. As Charles's twentieth birthday - and the Oxford entrance exams - loom,his plans for seducing Rachel will draw him into a private collection of obsessional notes and observations: the eponymous'Rachel Papers'. WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD'Scurrilous,shameless and very funny'The Times Literary Supplement'Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and,in a bizarre way,moving'Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099455424Number of pages: 224Weight: 159 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and,in a bizarre way,movingScurrilous,shameless and very funnyExtravagantly sexual-highly enjoyableAmis's arrogantly assured manner is a formidable weapon,spraying the target with disdainful wit,ingenious obscenity,astute literariness,loathing,lust,anxiety and an all-pervading hyper-self-consciousnessA magnificent novel,a masterpiece really,its prose energetic,angry,honest and so funny
Martin Amis
A titan of modern literature and one of his generation's most experimental and influential writers,Martin Amis was an award-winning British novelist,memoirist and essayist.
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