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 ascendency toward his own ends.
As revolutions go, this one might have been nonviolent, but it wasn't bloodless - and now, in the twenty-first century, the events of 1970 and their repercussions are finally catching up with Keith Nearing.
The Pregnant Widow is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, with all the confused vigor of youth and the bittersweet and sometimes simply bitter - wisdom of age and experience. Brilliant, haunting, and gloriously risqué, it is Martin Amis at his fearless best.
As revolutions go, this one might have been nonviolent, but it wasn't bloodless - and now, in the twenty-first century, the events of 1970 and their repercussions are finally catching up with Keith Nearing.
The Pregnant Widow is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, with all the confused vigor of youth and the bittersweet and sometimes simply bitter - wisdom of age and experience. Brilliant, haunting, and gloriously risqué, it is Martin Amis at his fearless best.
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Hardback Editions
August 2010 : Hardback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 1-4084-8625-3 / 978-1-4084-8625-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Windsor Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2010 : Hardback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow: Inside History (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice) Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 1-4104-2873-7 / 978-1-4104-2873-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2010 : Hardback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 0-676-97781-2 / 978-0-676-97781-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
May 2010 : Hardback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 1-4000-4452-9 / 978-1-4000-4452-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
February 2010 : Hardback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 0-224-07612-4 / 978-0-224-07612-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Jonathan Cape Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International) Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 1-4000-9598-0 / 978-1-4000-9598-8 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 0-676-97782-0 / 978-0-676-97782-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
March 2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 0-09-955412-7 / 978-0-09-955412-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 0-09-948873-6 / 978-0-09-948873-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Pregnant Widow, The (Large Print Book) Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 1-4084-8626-1 / 978-1-4084-8626-9 (UK edition) Publisher: AUDIOGO Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 0-224-09355-X / 978-0-224-09355-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Jonathan Cape Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
September 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Pregnant Widow, The Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 0-224-08436-4 / 978-0-224-08436-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Jonathan Cape Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
December 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis ISBN: 1-60998-136-7 / 9781609981365 (USA edition) Publisher: AudioGO Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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August 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Pregnant Widow Author(s): Martin Amis Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon More details... |
September 2010 : Unknown
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April 2010 : Kindle edition
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