The Rachel Papers

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The Rachel Papers is Martin Amis’s debut novel, a darkly comic coming-of-age story about a precocious teenager obsessively documenting his life and romantic pursuits.

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instanceOf feature film
novel
adaptation The Rachel Papers (film) NERFINISHED
adaptationReleaseYear 1989
author Martin Amis NERFINISHED
awarded Somerset Maugham Award NERFINISHED
awardYear 1974
basedOn The Rachel Papers NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
followedBy Dead Babies NERFINISHED
genre bildungsroman
comic novel
coming-of-age novel
satire
hasTheme exam pressure and academic ambition
family dysfunction
manipulation in relationships
self-obsession
sexual politics
language English
literaryMovement late 20th-century British fiction
mainCharacter Charles Highway NERFINISHED
Rachel Noyes NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective first-person narrative
notableFor early example of Martin Amis’s comic style
portrayal of precocious teenage narrator
originalPublicationDate 1973
partOf Martin Amis bibliography
protagonist Charles Highway NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1973
publisher Jonathan Cape NERFINISHED
setting London, England
surface form: London

Oxford NERFINISHED
structure diary-like papers
notes and lists
subjectMatter adolescence
class and social aspiration
intellectual pretension
romantic relationships
sexual awakening
targetAudience adult readers
timePeriodOfSetting late 1960s
tone darkly comic
ironic

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Martin Amis notableWork The Rachel Papers
Dexter Fletcher actedIn The Rachel Papers