In his uproarious, first novel, Martin, Amos author of the best selling Lundin Fields gave us one of the most noxiously believable and curiously touching adolescence ever to sniffle and left his way through the pages of contemporary fiction on the brink of 20 Charles Highway prefers preps, for Oxford, cheerfully loves his father, impiously plots of seduction of a girl named Rachel, a girl who is sorely test the metal of his cynicism when he finds himself falling in love with her