Book The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International) Martin Amis

portada The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Martin Amis

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

370

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.4 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781400095988

Synopsis "The Pregnant Widow (Vintage International)"

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. "If beauty has gone out of the world, it has just reentered literature through this strange, sparkling novel." --The New York Review of Books The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vacation in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing--a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity--and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a disturbing truth: between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of liminal purgatory, once described by the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen as "a pregnant widow." As Amis deftly explores the repercussions and consequences of that one summer, he presents us with a precise and poignant portrait of change. Expertly written and full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is Amis at his fearless best.

Martin Amis

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Martin Amis (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) estudió en Oxford y debutó brillantemente como novelista con El libro de Rachel, galardonada en 1973 con el Premio Somerset Maugham, publicada en España (en 1985) por Anagrama. A lo largo de su trayectoria trabajó como guionista y varias de sus novelas fueron adaptadas para televisión. Es autor de relatos cortos, ensayos y novelas. Tiene dos libros de carácter autobiográfico: Experiencia y Koba el Temible. Su última obra fue Desde dentro.

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