Title: The Rachel Papers
First published: 1973
Description: Een 19-jarige jongen heeft veel aspiraties, zoals in Oxford studeren en met een oudere vrouw slapen.
Subjects: Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Black Comedy, England, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Teenage boys, Sexual behavior, Fiction in English, 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, Adolescentie, Romans en novellen ; vertaald
Places: England
Time periods: London, Early Seventies