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  • The Pregnant Widow

  • Written by: Martin Amis
  • Narrated by: Steven Pacey
  • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Pregnant Widow

Written by: Martin Amis
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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Publisher's Summary

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 - 20 years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and women's ascendency toward his own ends.

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.

©2010 Martin Amis. All rights reserved. (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks America

What the critics say

"Amid droll banter and hilariously raunchy episodes, immensely gifted and piquantly mercurial Amis ponders, in passages of surpassing eloquence, beauty, time, self, deception, 'the winepress of death,' and the abiding light of literature, deepening the valence of this charmingly provocative and philosophical comedy of desire." ( Booklist)

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