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Title	:	The Rachel Papers
Author	:	Martin Amis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	September 29th 1992 by Vintage (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Young Adult. Coming Of Age

The Rachel Papers Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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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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Original Title:	The Rachel Papers
ISBN:	0679734589 (ISBN13: 9780679734581)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Highway
Literary Awards:	Somerset Maugham Award (1974)

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If Philip Roth is correct and life is misunderstanding people, then I remain awed by the riddle which is Martin Amis. His first novel The Rachel Papers injects self-awareness into satire, leaking a fecund foam which changes everything about how we regard the way we live now. The insecurity of adolescence is illustrated by our protagonist, one Charles Highway, who diagrams said angst and provides cross-references from the literary canon. One can imagine the reader or protagonsit saying bugger

Fiction. Self-indulgent, myopic, teenage fiction. I like Amis, but not his narrator. Charles Highway is a spoiled 19-year-old who considers himself an intellectual and tends towards something he identifies as "self-infatuation" but makes no move to resist. I couldn't handle him and nearly threw this book down twice for every page I read.

I'm both too old and too female to really connect with this book but it's a pretty amazing job for a 24 year old (which is the age Amis was when this published). Such a witty writing style.I wonder if this was the start of the "debut comic coming-of-age novel by and about bookish, awkward English boys with anti-hero protagonists that are thinly veiled versions of the authors themselves" trend? Amis on Oxford: "I dislike the town. Sorry: too many butterfly trendies, upper-class cunts, regional

1.5 stars. I've never used the dictionary feature on my kindle so many times. In fact I rarely use it but with this book, I had to about 3 times per page. I understand that was the point of the book. The protagonist is a pretentious little shit. But really it was a chore to read. And also boring. Nothing happened this entire book. Nothing at all.

Charles Highway is a Rick Ocasek-looking, luggie horking, father-hating-for-unspecified-reasons, asthmatic on the cusp of his 20th birthday, which he is taking, like most things, very seriously. He spends the hour leading up to midnight of the big day, which he refers to as the end of his youth, revisiting his relationship with Rachel. This is easy, as Charles Highway has kept detailed notes on their time together, all while simultaneously creating a personal guidebook called "Conquests and

The Rachel Papers was my first Martin Amis novel and I liked it enough that I would read Amis again, most definitely. People say his subsequent efforts, such as Money and London Fields, are brilliant, and based on this book published (if my math is right) when the author was 24 I imagine they are. What a talent to write that well at that age. In terms of style and ability, it reads like a novel penned by someone twice as old. The story (a narrative told on the day before the protagonists 20th

The Rachel Papers is hilarious, while shamelessly trashy and egomaniacal. After I got over my misgivings, it was hugely entertaining. I'd never read anything by Amis and impulsively picked this up to read in Oxford & London (the setting switches back and forth between the two cities) with little other rationalization. The Rachel Papers is Amis' first book, penned at 24, and I like what another reviewer said - it's like Catcher in the Rye if Holden Caulfied got laid. Kind of. Only Charles