Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/08/2007
ISBN: 9780099503873
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £8.99
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...
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/08/2007
ISBN: 9780099503873
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £8.99
"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"
"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"
"Extravagantly sexual...highly enjoyable"