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Loading... The Rachel Papersby Martin Amis
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. All in all quite disappointing. One gets the feeling that the true subject of the book is the anxiety of not being admitted to the Oxford college of choice and that the sexual shenanigans are a way to deal with this anxiety just as the numerous drugs and schools of literary criticism in the book are presented as a way of dealing with sexual anxiety. There are however some really good images. My favorite: "A checkerboard of nuns crossing the street". (  ) stefano | Jun 1, 2008 |  Hmmm. A bookish teenager trying to get into a posh university while being distracted by girls (specifically, by a girl slightly out of his league)? What's not to like? (  ) AsYouKnow_Bob | Dec 1, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679734589, Paperback)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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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