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The Rachel Papers
Martin Amis
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Description for The Rachel Papers
Paperback. Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 193 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects...
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects...
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099503873
SKU
V9780099503873
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About Martin Amis
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his ... Read more
Reviews for The Rachel Papers
Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving
Peter Ackroyd Scurrilous, shameless and very funny
Times Literary Supplement
Amis'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-consciousness
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Peter Ackroyd Scurrilous, shameless and very funny
Times Literary Supplement
Amis'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-consciousness
... Read more