Amis's vision of adolescence is an unvarnished, terrifying and hilarious one." -- New Yorker 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 Oxford, cheerfully loathes his father, and meticulously plots the seduction of a girl named Rachel -- a girl who sorely tests the mettle of his cynicism when he finds himself falling in love with her. "A truly sexy and funny book...a delight...the best teenage sex novel since Goodbye Columbus." -- New York "Amis is a born comic novelist, in the tradition that ranges from Dickens to Waugh...He can find laughter in catastrophe and knows that morality shifts sneakily between absolutes and ambiguity...Amis's mercurial style...can rise to Joycean brilliance."
0 有用 Sydlililulula 2023-09-04 23:17:14 四川
特别好笑...Amis的一贯聪明文风加上青少年exasperation, 感觉在某种意义上可以算作我的the most becoming coming-of-age novel: 身份的巧合加上各种某一部分的人问学生才能懂的inside joke, 当然也让我彻底对于看起来比我聪明的同龄人(尤其男的)祛魅了:我也要活得完全ego-centered, 尽管我的入学文章写得狗屁不通, someone ... 特别好笑...Amis的一贯聪明文风加上青少年exasperation, 感觉在某种意义上可以算作我的the most becoming coming-of-age novel: 身份的巧合加上各种某一部分的人问学生才能懂的inside joke, 当然也让我彻底对于看起来比我聪明的同龄人(尤其男的)祛魅了:我也要活得完全ego-centered, 尽管我的入学文章写得狗屁不通, someone will still take me lol (展开)
0 有用 Polyommatinae 2018-11-16 10:27:29
文学性与轻佻戏谑融合在一起,Martin Amis写这本书时也不过二十岁出头,年轻,反叛与成长的主题表达十分真实。(P.S.我超喜欢甚至印在帆布袋上的一句prufrock里面的诗句被戏仿得乱七八糟 但我看的时候还是笑得好开心
0 有用 Jericho 2024-11-22 17:11:40 广东
to the chunk of hormone
0 有用 minuitcares 2016-05-27 15:08:44
Pleasurable and sexy and young. Very young.