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The Pregnant Widow

by Martin Amis
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Sexual revolution's ecstatic throes in literature.

The Pregnant Widow is a humorous novel that provides an insightful portrait of change and its repercussions. Martin Amis uses a 20-year-old literature student in 1970 to capture the bubbling chaos and excitement of the Sexual Revolution. It's a great read for anyone interested in exploring the transitional period of social upheavals, with witty humor and poignancy that is Amis' best.

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The Pregnant Widow

by Martin Amis
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ISBN: 9781400095988
Authors: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2011-05-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.08
(rated by 2870 readers)

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change."A nearly perfect comic novel.” — New York MagazineThe year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing—a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity—and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a disturbing between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of liminal purgatory, once described by the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen as “a pregnant widow.”As Amis deftly explores the repercussions and consequences of that one summer, he presents us with a precise and poignant portrait of change. Expertly written and full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is Amis at his fearless best.
 

Sexual revolution's ecstatic throes in literature.

The Pregnant Widow is a humorous novel that provides an insightful portrait of change and its repercussions. Martin Amis uses a 20-year-old literature student in 1970 to capture the bubbling chaos and excitement of the Sexual Revolution. It's a great read for anyone interested in exploring the transitional period of social upheavals, with witty humor and poignancy that is Amis' best.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.