“This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life.”
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<b>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>
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Martin Amis
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