The Pregnant Widow
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:31st Mar '11
Should be back in stock very soon
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 *
Amis writes thrillingly well... [The Pregnant Widow] delivers fantastic enjoyment... It is funny, clever and knowing * Daily Mail *
Amis is a powerful writer * Independent on Sunday *
There is something witty or striking on almost every page * Mail on Sunday *
Martin Amis's new novel shows a regathering of his artistic energies * Guardian *
The buzzing sense of fresh, limitless erotic licence is captured brilliantly...he is beginning to write with Old Master assurance on the important subjects... If Amis keeps writing like this about death, he can still prove everyone wrong * The Times *
ISBN: 9780099488736
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 28mm
Weight: 330g
480 pages