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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780679734581
ISBN: 0679734589
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 29, 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: September 29, 1992
Sales Rank: 469664
Studio: Vintage
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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.
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The Rachel Papers is something like Nabokov meets the teen sex film, but with depth and edge; perhaps this is the novel's greatest accomplishment. It simultaneously portrays sex as the farce it can truly be, but gives equal room to the gravity of this most intimate of human activities, which reveals more than it conceals about our nature. And this can be played out nowhere more aptly than in the battleground of late teen sex: that border zone where libido meets maturity in uncertain shades of ... Read More
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The Rachel Papers was Martin Amis's first novel, from 1973, written when he was about the age of the book's protagonist -- that is, on the cusp of 20. Charles Highway tells his story on the night before his 20th birthday, which in his view makes him an adult. He is cramming for entry to Oxford. He's the son of a successful man who he mostly loathes. He is living in London, with his elder sister and her rather disgusting husband.
The story tells in flashbacks the history of his relationship ... Read More
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The Rachel Papers, by Martin Amis, is an interesting portrayal of the teenage years of Charles Highway. As Charles nears his twentieth birthday he reflects on the memories that were recorded in his journal. Jam packed with sex and drugs, this caricature of the 60's and 70's lifestyle is quite vulgar. Martin Amis details Charles Highway's frequent sexual encounters and even dabs into the health problems that occur as a result. Mr. Highway is an intellectual, upper class, lower class; well ... I guess ... Read More
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Charles Highway: an overanalysing piece of work. He is shallow (like most men probably are, it's just reading what we think is a little harder to swallow) but still manages to charm the ladies. This book is all about the massive amounts of diaries Charles keeps each year and he is reminiscing over them in the hours leading up to the stroke of midnight declaring the end of his childhood. He has kept many diaries for a large portion of his life (he mentions that he seems to always go through seven a year no ... Read More
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A Review of The Rachel Papers
If it wasn't for the sex, the drugs and the vulgarity The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis would have been completely unreadable. The fact is that is all that was appealing in the entire book. Outside of the crude and sometimes over-the-top humor, The Rachel Papers is just another book about a young adult trying to `find himself'. The young adult in question is Charles Highway, who is on the verge of turning twenty; something he thinks will have a large effect on ... Read More
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