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Author: Amis, Martin
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Published on 13 August 2003 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 224 pages
197 x 131 x 14 | 168g
Charles Highway is every mothers 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 Charless 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 SupplementAmis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving Peter Ackroyd
