{"product_id":"9780099455424","title":"The Rachel Papers","description":"\u003cb\u003eCharles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrecociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets the aloof, wildly unattainable, Rachel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Charles’s twentieth birthday – and the Oxford entrance exams – loom, his plans for seducing Rachel will draw him into a private collection of obsessional notes and observations: the eponymous ‘Rachel Papers’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Scurrilous, shameless and very funny' \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving’ Peter Ackroyd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin Amis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":58906991132832,"sku":"9780099455424","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_155ab081-406a-423b-abb9-f29ac1e84931.jpg?v=1789329765","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780099455424","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}