The Rachel Papers

About this book

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.