The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis Paperback Book 9781784879631

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDONCharles Highway is every mothers worst nightmare Precociously intelligent mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the halfarsed overtures of his distant parents That is until he meets the aloof wildly unattainable RachelAs Charless 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 PapersWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDScurrilous shameless and very funny The Times Literary SupplementAmis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and in a bizarre way moving Peter Ackroyd