{"product_id":"9781784879631","title":"The Rachel Papers : 50th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Martin Amis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 16 November 2023 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 19mm | 172g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDONCharles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD'Scurrilous, shameless and very funny' The Times Literary Supplement'Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving' Peter Ackroyd\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin Amis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57418920100165,"sku":"9781784879631","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781784879631.jpg?v=1773833142","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781784879631","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}