The Pregnant Widow
- Author Martin Amis
- Narrator Steven Pacey
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 11 May 2010
- Run Time 14 hours and 9 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary, Generational sagas, Historical fiction.
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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
“Tight, funny, sexy, poignant.”
“Sparkling and pointed.…[Amis’s] prose in this sex comedy is angular and tart.”
“The buzzing sense of fresh, limitless erotic license is captured brilliantly.…[Amis] is beginning to write with Old Master assurance on the important subjects.”
“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.”
“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.”
| Author | Martin Amis |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Steven Pacey |
| Duration | 14 hours and 9 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781602839472 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Fiction: general and literary, Generational sagas, Historical fiction |
| Availability | US |
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