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Synopsis
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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Review
"Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving" (Peter Ackroyd)
"Scurrilous, shameless and very funny" (Time Literary Supplement)
"Extravagantly sexual-highly enjoyable" (Evening Standard)
"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)
From the Publisher
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0345244303
- ISBN 13 9780345244307
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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