# The Pregnant Widow

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- Book: [The Pregnant Widow](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis/the-pregnant-widow) ([The Pregnant Widow.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis/the-pregnant-widow.md))
- Authors: [Martin Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9948-873-6
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2019-07-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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