The Rachel Papers (Vintage Blue)

The Rachel Papers (Vintage Blue)

by Martin Amis (Author)

Synopsis

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...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 0099466694
ISBN 13: 9780099466697

Media Reviews
'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', Observer
Author Bio
Martin Amis is the author of nine novels, two collections of stories and five collections of non-fiction. His memoir, Experience, was published by Vintage in 2001.