The Rachel Papers

Informationen zum Autor Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023. Klappentext Reissue. Zusammenfassung Charles Highway! a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager! is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously! sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects...

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Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving Peter Ackroyd

Product details

• Authors: Martin Amis, Amis Martin
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.08.2007
• EAN: 9780099503873
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950387-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Blue
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Relating to adolescence / teenage years, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1970 to c 1979, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction