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The Rachel Papers tells the story of Charles Highway, a bright, egotistical teenager (a portrait Amis acknowledges as autobiographical) [3] and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university.
- Martin Amis
- 1973
Nov 7, 2012 · The Rachel Papers is—partially, at least—about being a writer and buying into the pervasive myth that true creativity belongs to troubled geniuses. The subsequent pressure to make life worthy of documentation causes Charles to long for something heart-wrenching to occur:
Jan 1, 1973 · The story (a narrative told on the day before the protagonist’s 20th birthday, recounting the previous pre-university year) revolves around Charles Highway and his “first love” Rachel, though it’s unclear if Charles really loves Rachel (or anything, or anyone, besides perhaps William Blake).
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Aug 26, 2011 · The Rachel Papers (1973), Martin Amis’s first novel, is a snapshot of teenage life for Charles Highway, a pseudo-intellectual and aspiring literary critic who, soon to turn twenty, is desperately clinging to adolescent freedom, studying for Oxford entrance exams, obsessing over typical teenage anxieties, and trying to bed an older women ...
Mar 24, 2023 · The Rachel Papers was published on November 15, 1973, when Amis was twenty-four years old. It won the Somerset Maugham award, but contemporary reviews were mixed, and fascinated by the Martin-Kingsley connection.
Sep 18, 2024 · 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.
Rereading: The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis review — the debut of the nastiest voice of his generation. In Martin Amis’s latest novel, this autumn’s autobiographical Inside Story, he recalls his debut, The Rachel Papers. Published in 1973 when he was 24, it is.
