The Rachel papers /
Amis, Martin.
London : Vintage,
2007, c1973.
Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1973.
Seven o'clock: Oxford -- Seven twenty: London -- Quarter to eight: The Costa Brava -- Thirty-five minutes past eight: the Rachel Papers, Volume One -- Nine: the bathroom -- Half after: right Charlie -- Ten five: the spinnery -- Twenty-five of eleven: the Low -- Eleven ten: The Rachel Papers, Volume Two -- Twenty-past:"Celia shits" (The Dean of St. Patrick's) -- Twenty to: the dog days -- Midnight: coming of age.
English fiction.
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave 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 High-way 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 falling in love with her.