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."

马丁•艾米斯（Martin Amis），英国当代著名作家，1949年生于牛津文学世家，著名小说家金斯利•艾米斯之子。马丁•艾米斯素有英国“文坛教父”之称，与伊恩•麦克尤恩（Ian McEwan）、朱利安•巴恩斯（Julian Barnes）并称英国“文坛三巨头”。1974年，艾米斯凭其处女作《雷切尔文件》摘得毛姆文学奖，并被誉为“文学天才”。此后艾米斯借其一系列风格多变的作品步入文坛巅峰：《金钱——绝命书》（1984）入选《时代》杂志“一百部最佳英语小说”之列；《时间箭——罪行的本质》（1991）和《黄狗》（2003）先后入围布克奖提名。虽然艾米斯屡次无缘该奖项，但却无损他成为“英国最受欢迎的年轻作家”（GRANTA杂志）的头号人物。马丁•艾米斯在创作上深受卡夫卡、纳博科夫、乔伊斯等大师的影响，在写实的手法上融入了意识流、黑色幽默及浓郁的魔幻主义风格；其先锋实验的文学品格、标新立异的创作形式、变幻莫测的情节铺陈以及惊世骇俗的语言天赋令其享尽世人瞩目，更被形容为是“蘸着迷药水书写的文坛大师”。