Why read The Rachel Papers?

Book cover of The Rachel Papers

Book description

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. On the brink of twenty, Charles High-way preps desultorily for…

Explore

Topics

Genres

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked The Rachel Papers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Karen E. Stokes

Author

Martin Amis’s first novel, published in 1973, was the first book that I read from cover to cover.

I was only eighteen at the time and even though my memory of the story is vague, I remember being drawn in by the unique and compelling way it was told.

I went on to read other works by the same author, but The Rachel Papers has a particular poignancy, in that it has lingered in my psyche for over forty years. Even in adolescence, I came to realise that books are as individual as the person reading them.

From Karen's list on inspiring reads as both a writer and a reader.