The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International)

ISBN: 1400095980

Author: Amis, Martin

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 whos about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change."A nearly perfect comic novel. -New York MagazineThe year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing-a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity-and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a disturbing truth: between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of liminal purgatory, once described by the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen as a pregnant widow.As Amis deftly explores the repercussions and consequences of that one summer, he presents us with a precise and poignant portrait of change. Expertly written and full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is Amis at his fearless best.