- Editorial:
- VINTAGE
- Año de edición:
- 2010
- Materia
- Literatura internacional
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4000-9598-8
- Páginas:
- 370
- Encuadernación:
- Rústica
THE PREGNANT WIDOW
AMIS, MARTIN
u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 whos about to discover the liberating possibilities and haunting consequences of social change. u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eIf beauty has gone out of the world, it has just reentered literature through this strange, sparkling novel. u003ciu003eThe New York Review of Books u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eThe 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-swinga historical moment of unprecedented opportunityand 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eAs 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, u003ciu003eThe Pregnant Widow u003c/iu003eis Amis at his fearless best. u003c/pu003e