The Pregnant Widow

The Pregnant Widow - Paperback

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The Pregnant Widow

The Pregnant Widow - Paperback

by Martin Amis
$22.00
Sale price  $22.00 Regular price 

Book Overview

In the heat-soaked summer of 1970, twenty-year-old Keith Nearing, a literature-obsessed student navigates the confusing new freedoms of love and lust during a holiday in an Italian castle. Dazzled by beautiful women, and torn between the romantic and cynical sides of his nature, Keith is swept along by a cultural revolution whose consequences he--and the novel--are still reckoning with decades later.

Returning to the era and the milieu of Martin Amis's youthful breakout novels, The Pregnant Widow looks back, with pain and ardor, on a moment when social upheaval seemed to offer boundless sexual freedom and delivered something more complicated. This is a novel about the unfinished business of the twentieth century--a reckoning with the promises of feminism, the delusions of youth, and the ravages of time.
ISBN9781250414946
Author Martin Amis
PublisherPicador USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages384
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Martin Amis

Martin Amis (1949-2023) was a British novelist and critic. His work includes fifteen novels, among them Money, London Fields, and The Information; two collections of short stories; five books of essays; and the acclaimed memoir Experience.

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