The Rachel Papers Av Martin Amis

<p><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDON<br><br>Charles Highway is every mother''s worst nightmare. </b><br><br>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.<br><br>As Charles''s 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''.<br><br><b>WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD</b><br><br><b>''Scurrilous, shameless and very funny'' <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><br><b>''Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving'' Peter Ackroyd</b></p>