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Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780099503873
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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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.
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.
| ISBN | 0099503875 | | Weight (grammes) | 172 | | ISBN13 | 9780099503873
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Vintage | | Height (mm) | 195 | | Imprint | Vintage Classics | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Format | Paperback | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | Publication date | 05 Nov 2009 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 224 | |
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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 Scurrilous, shameless and very funny Times Literary Supplement Amis's arrogantly assured manner is a formidable weapon, spraying the target with disdainful wit, ingenious obscenity, astute literariness, loathing, lust, anxiety and an all-pervading hyper-self-consciousness Observer  Be the first to write a customer review
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