The Rachel Papers
On the last night of his teens a boy sits down with his files and folders — notes on girls, drafts of letters, rehearsed conversation — and goes back over the campaign that got him Rachel. He is cramming for an Oxford interview at the same time, and both projects are conducted in the same spirit of calculation. Written at twenty-three and given the Somerset Maugham Award, as his father's first novel had been.
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