Buy this book on-line AMIS**, MARTIN: : THE PREGNANT WIDOW: Inside HistoryLONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,2010. ISBN 9780224076128.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,thick stiff paper,coloured illustrated artwork,by Adam Lowe,to white matt background, with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Barely perceptible two small circular ring impressions to rear panel of dw/dj,through to rear board,and inexplicably a slightly larger - but nevertheless still faint - circular ring impression towards centre of rear free endpaper.Top+bottom,front corners minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss,both head+foot of spine/backstrip are minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing. Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - otherwise bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound -no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a black headband,and near immaculate plain black endpapers - fault to rear endpaper excepted. Described hard,but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads,sounds or would seem! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-470pp [paginated] includes an intro,Books 1-5 with varying numbers of chapters etc., acknowledgements towards the rear.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,quotation/prose/extracts,a pair of 2pp blanks,before and after the acknowledgements.
Summer 1970 - a long,hot summer.
In a castle in Italy,half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution.The girls are acting like boys,and the boys are going on acting like boys,and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all colgged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends.
The sexual revolution may have been a velvet revolution (in at least two senses),but it wasn't bloodless - and now,in the twenty-first century,the year 1970 finally catches up with Keith Nearing.
'The Pregnant Widow' is a comedy of manners and a nightmare,brilliant,haunting and gloriously risque.It is Martin Amis at his fearless best.
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