The Pregnant Widow

The Pregnant Widow
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780307593573
ISBN-13 : 0307593576
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Book Synopsis The Pregnant Widow by : Martin Amis

Download or read book The Pregnant Widow written by Martin Amis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause, its nubile foot soldiers have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of terrifying purgatory—or, as Alexander Herzen put it, a pregnant widow. Keith Nearing is stuck in an exquisite limbo. Twenty years old and on vacation from college, Keith and an assortment of his peers are spending the long, hot summer in a castle in Italy. The tragicomedy of manners that ensues will have an indelible effect on all its participants, and we witness, too, how it shapes Keith’s subsequent love life for decades to come. Bitingly funny, full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is a trenchant portrait of young lives being carried away on a sea of change.


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