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The Pregnant Widow is a novel by the English writer Martin Amis, published by Jonathan Cape on 4 February 2010. Its theme is the feminist revolution, which Amis sees as incomplete and bewildering for women, echoing the view of the 19th-century Russian writer, Alexander Herzen, that revolution is "a long night of chaos and desolation".
- Martin Amis
- 370 pp (hardback first edition)
- 2010
- February 2010
31 gen 2010 · The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis. Martin Amis goes back to first principles, with impressive results, says Tim Adams. Tim Adams. Sat 30 Jan 2010 19.06 EST. F or at least the past decade Martin...
1 gen 2010 · Martin Amis, in The Pregnant Widow, takes as his control experiment a long, hot summer holiday in a castle in Italy, where half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea change of 1970. The result is a tragicomedy of manners, combining the wit of Money with the historical sense of Time's Arrow and House of Meetings .
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- Hardcover
29 giu 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 470 pages ; 24 cm. "Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution.
About The Pregnant Widow. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change. “A nearly perfect comic novel.” —New York Magazine
- Paperback
6 feb 2010 · This pithily reductive progress report on Martin Amis's new novel is spoken by a character in it, summing up not only her student boyfriend's increasingly boisterous approach to Eng lit, but also...
11 mag 2010 · Martin Amis. Knopf Canada, May 11, 2010 - Fiction - 384 pages. The eagerly anticipated new novel from the inimitable Martin Amis. Summer 1970 — a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a...
