The Pregnant Widow

A new reissue series of Martin Amis's novels to mark his 70th birthday'A phenomenal writer' Sunday TimesAn 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

Martin Amis was the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time's Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. Amis died in May 2023.

'Read it: it is hilarious, wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language' Justin Cartwright, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Moving and humane, The Pregnant Widow also captivates by the accustomed wit and elegance of its style. It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth' Philip Hensher, DAILY TELEGRAPH An Italian castle, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects. And now in the twenty first century, as he reflects on that summer holiday, the aftershocks of the sexual revolution finally catch up with Keith Nearing. The Pregnant Widow is gloriously risqu and ferociously funny. It is Martin Amis at his fearless best. 'No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it' OBSERVER 'Amis writes thrillingly well... It is funny, clever and knowing' DAILY MAIL 'Delight us Amis does, and as few can' INDEPENDENT 'What a voice! There's a full-throated energy to this book that makes more respectable contemporary novels look like turgid waffle' GUARDIAN

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