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The Pregnant Widow
Martin Amis
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Description for The Pregnant Widow
paperback. An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism towards his own ends. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
‘A phenomenal writer’ Sunday Times
An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.
Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind.
Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies’s emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects.
'Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099488736
SKU
9780099488736
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Ref
99-1
About Martin Amis
Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his ... Read more
Reviews for The Pregnant Widow
No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it
Observer
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time
Psychologies
Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language
Financial Times
Moving and ... Read more
Observer
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time
Psychologies
Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language
Financial Times
Moving and ... Read more