The Pregnant Widow

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 Magazine

The 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 truth: 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.

Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/03/2011
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9781400095988
ISBN10: 1400095980
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Martin Amis is the author of eleven previous novels, the memoir Experience, and two collections of stories and six of nonfiction, most recently The Second Plane. He lives in London.