The Pregnant Widow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250414946)

A provocative meditation on sex, power, and the long shadow of the sexual revolution.

In the heat-soaked summer of 1970, twenty-year-old Keith Nearing, a literature-obsessed student, navigates the confusing new freedoms of love and lust during a holiday in an Italian castle. Surrounded by beautiful women, political awakenings, and shifting gender roles, Keith becomes both participant in and bewildered observer of a cultural revolution whose consequences he--and the novel--are still reckoning with decades later.

With his characteristic wit, Martin Amis examines the personal fallout of social upheaval, casting a retrospective eye on a moment when liberation promised everything and delivered something far more complicated. The Pregnant Widow is a novel about the unfinished business of the twentieth century--a reckoning with the promises of feminism, the delusions of youth, and the way history embeds itself in the body.

Author: Martin Amis
ISBN-10: 1250414946
ISBN-13: 9781250414946
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d