The Rachel Papers
50th Anniversary Edition
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:16th Nov '23
Should be back in stock very soon
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDON
Charles 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
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—Time Literary Supplement
Extravagantly sexual-highly enjoyable—Evening Standard
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
A magnificent novel, a masterpiece really, its prose energetic, angry, honest and so funny—Andrew Billen, The Times
ISBN: 9781784879631
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 170g
240 pages