
The Rachel Papers : 50th Anniversary Edition
by Martin Amis
Title:
The Rachel Papers : 50th Anniversary Edition
Author:
Martin Amis
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
240 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9781784879631
EAN:
9781784879631
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
292
Dimensions (mm):
128 x 197 x 19
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDONCharles 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




















