The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis audiobook

The Pregnant Widow

By Martin Amis
Read by Steven Pacey

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
  • $29.95

    ISBN: 9781609981365

Runtime: 14.15 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

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

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Tight, funny, sexy, poignant.” San Francisco Chronicle
“Sparkling and pointed.…[Amis’s] prose in this sex comedy is angular and tart.” New York Post
“The buzzing sense of fresh, limitless erotic license is captured brilliantly.…[Amis] is beginning to write with Old Master assurance on the important subjects.” The Times (London)
“Sumptuous.…It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and also reveals considerable emotional depth.…Moving and humane, The Pregnant Widow also captivates by the accustomed wit and elegance of its style.” Daily Telegraph (London)
“An ambitious, historically-minded project with keen insight and masterly sentences.…The Pregnant Widow is a stunning book; it contains within it all that is best in the English novel.” The Millions

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Author Bio: Martin Amis

Author Bio: Martin Amis

Martin Amis (1949-2023) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His novels Night Train and London Fields made the New York Times bestsellers list. His memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and two of his books were finalists for the Booker Prize. His novel Money was named by London’s The Guardian as one of the top 100 Best Novels Written in English. He was a professor of creative writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011.

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Available Formats : Retail CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 14.15
Audience: Adult
Language: English