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The Pregnant Widow
  • Published: 31 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9781446401583
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

The Pregnant Widow

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1 June 2011
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31 July 2013
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A new reissue series of Martin Amis's novels to mark his 70th birthday


‘A phenomenal writer’ Sunday Times

An 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
  • Published: 31 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9781446401583
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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About the author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.
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Also by Martin Amis

Inside Story
The Zone of Interest
Time's Arrow
Book of Lives
The Rub of Time
The Rachel Papers
Experience
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Praise for The Pregnant Widow

The best novelist of his generation

Independent

One of the funniest books I've read in a long time

Psychologies

The buzzing sense of fresh, limitless erotic licence is captured brilliantly...he is beginning to write with Old Master assurance on the important subjects... If Amis keeps writing like this about death, he can still prove everyone wrong

The Times

Martin Amis's new novel shows a regathering of his artistic energies

Guardian

There is something witty or striking on almost every page

Mail on Sunday

Amis is a powerful writer

Independent on Sunday

Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language

Financial Times

Amis writes thrillingly well... [The Pregnant Widow] delivers fantastic enjoyment... It is funny, clever and knowing

Daily Mail

Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth

Daily Telegraph

No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it

Observer