description: 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.
language: English
title: The Rachel papers
titlecomplete: The Rachel papers
characters: Charles Highway, Rachel Noyes
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, British Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 10468
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Jonathan Cape