White Palace (film)
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Jan 1, 1973 · 10,689 ratings580 reviews. 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.
By GRACE GLUECK. THE RACHEL PAPERS. By Martin Amis. ust 20 years after "Lucky Jim," Kingsley Amis's famously funny novel about life at a minor British university, his 24-year-old son Martin has made so bold as to produce a novel himself; though--to say it right off--not really one to give a novelist father the sweats.
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 ...
Rereading: The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis review — the debut of the nastiest voice of his generation. No man would dare to write this novel today, says Andrew Billen, but its energetic,...
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Mar 24, 2023 · March 24, 2023. Read this issue. Listen. I don’t think I’m supposed to like this novel. I’ve had that feeling ever since I suggested it to an all-female book club I briefly belonged to in my early twenties. I’d first read The Rachel Papers in my teens, and found it full of edgy humour and daring, unsayable truths.
Nov 8, 2013 · The Rachel Papers Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Barry McIlheney Empire Magazine. TOP CRITIC. Captures the brash boldness of the novel, but not the...
The Rachel Papers | Rotten Tomatoes. List. TOP CRITIC. Rated: 2/5 • Nov 8, 2013. TOP CRITIC. Nov 8, 2013. TOP CRITIC. Mar 26, 2009. Rated: 2/5 • Nov 8, 2013. Rated: 2/4 • Nov 8, 2013. Rated:...
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