The Rachel Papers - (Vintage International) by Martin Amis (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The narrator of Martin Amis's uproarious first novel is at once a cynical lecher and an abject victim of puppy love--one of the most believable and curiously touching adolescents ever to lust and sniffle his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. New York calls The Rachel Papers "the best teenage sex novel since Goodbye Columbus".<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In Amis's first novel, he gives us one of the most noxiously believable--and curiously touching--adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the brink of twenty, Charles Highway preps desultorily for Oxford, cheerfully loathes his father, and meticulously plots the seduction of a girl named Rachel--a girl who sorely tests the mettle of his cynicism when he finds himself in love with her.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Amis's vision of adolescence is an unvarnished, terrifying and hilarious one."-- New Yorker <p/>"A truly sexy and funny book...a delight...the best teenage sex novel since Goodbye Columbus." -- New York <p/>"Amis is a born comic novelist, in the tradition that ranges from Dickens to Waugh...He can find laughter in catastrophe and knows that morality shifts sneakily between absolutes and ambiguity...Amis's mercurial style...can rise to Joycean brilliance."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Martin Amis is the best-selling author of several books, including <b>London Fields</b>, <b>Money</b>, <b>The Information</b>, and, most recently, <b>Experience</b>. He lives in London.
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