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The Pregnant Widow

Martin Amis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:31st Mar '11

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Amis on top form. An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.



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.

‘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' Financial Times

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 humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth * Daily Telegraph *
The best novelist of his generation * Independent *

ISBN: 9780099488736

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 28mm

Weight: 330g

480 pages