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The Pregnant Widow is a novel by the English writer Martin Amis, published by Jonathan Cape on 4 February 2010. [1] Its theme is the feminist revolution, which Amis sees as incomplete and bewildering for women, echoing the view of the 19th-century Russian writer, Alexander Herzen , that revolution is "a long night of chaos and desolation". [ 2 ]
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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. “A nearly perfect comic novel.”. —New York Magazine.
May 3, 2011 · After all, a pregnant widow has the joy of a child to anticipate but the grief of great loss to endure, and the complicated relationships transcend the summer of 1970 and finally bring the characters to the current day, flawed, grieving for a lost sister, but with hard-won happiness found at last.
May 14, 2010 · In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war. Cut to spring, 1940: Viann has said ...
May 3, 2011 · NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel of a twenty-year-old literature student in 1970 who’s about to discover the liberating...
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.
The Pregnant Widow. Reviewed by Andrew Riemer. February 4, 2010 — 3.03am. Normal text size. Larger text size. Very large text size. By Martin Amis. Jonathan Cape, 465pp, $32.95. HERE at last is the Martin Amis novel that's had literary London in a spin for years. Back in 2003, they hated Yellow Dog.
