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The Pregnant Widow
- Author
- Martin Amis
- Narrator
- Steven Pacey
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 May 2010
- Run Time
- 14 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution.
The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing—twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel—is struggling to twist feminism and women's ascendancy toward his own ends.
Critics Review
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“Tight, funny, sexy, poignant.”
San Francisco Chronicle
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“Sparkling and pointed.…[Amis’s] prose in this sex comedy is angular and tart.”
New York Post
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“The buzzing sense of fresh, limitless erotic license is captured brilliantly.…[Amis] is beginning to write with Old Master assurance on the important subjects.”
The Times (London)
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“Sumptuous.…It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and also reveals considerable emotional depth.…Moving and humane, The Pregnant Widow also captivates by the accustomed wit and elegance of its style.”
Daily Telegraph (London)
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“An ambitious, historically-minded project with keen insight and masterly sentences.…The Pregnant Widow is a stunning book; it contains within it all that is best in the English novel.”
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Details
- Author
- Martin Amis
- Narrator
- Steven Pacey
- Duration
- 14 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 May 2010
- ISBN
- 9781602839472
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Generational sagas, Historical fiction
Synopsis
The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing—twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel—is struggling to twist feminism and women's ascendancy toward his own ends.
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