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The Pregnant Widow

Martin Amis

9780224084369

Jonathan Cape Ltd


Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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480 pages

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Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. The sexual revolution may have been a velvet revolution (in at least two senses), but it wasn't bloodless - and now, in the twenty-first century, the year 1970 finally catches up with Keith Nearing. The Pregnant Widow is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and gloriously risque. It is the most eagerly anticipated novel of the year and Martin Amis at his fearless best.

Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. The sexual revolution may have been a velvet revolution (in at least two senses), but it wasn't bloodless - and now, in the twenty-first century, the year 1970 finally catches up with Keith Nearing. The Pregnant Widow is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and gloriously risque. It is the most eagerly anticipated novel of the year and Martin Amis at his fearless best.

By:   Martin Amis
Imprint:   Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Airports / Ireland / Export and Waterstones in the UK ed
Dimensions:   Height: 231mm,  Width: 154mm,  Spine: 36mm
Weight:   630g
ISBN:  

9780224084369


ISBN 10:   0224084364
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   February 2010
Audience:   General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Martin Amis is the author of ten novels, two collections of stories and seven works of non-fiction. He lives in London.

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