The Pregnant Widow Lib/E
The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing-twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel-is struggling to twist feminism and women's ascendancy toward his own ends.
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Steven Pacey is an actor and Earphones Award-winning narrator. He is a highly decorated stage actor, performing often at the West End Theatre. He has appeared in numerous television roles, including Tarrant in Blake's 7, and has made over three hundred radio broadcasts.
Sparkling and pointed....[Amis's] prose in this sex comedy is angular and tart.
-- "New York Post"Tight, funny, sexy, poignant.
-- "San Francisco Chronicle"Sumptuous....It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and also reveals considerable emotional depth....Moving and humane, The Pregnant Widow also captivates by the accustomed wit and elegance of its style.
-- "Daily Telegraph (London)"The buzzing sense of fresh, limitless erotic license is captured brilliantly....[Amis] is beginning to write with Old Master assurance on the important subjects.
-- "Times (London)"An ambitious, historically-minded project with keen insight and masterly sentences....The Pregnant Widow is a stunning book; it contains within it all that is best in the English novel.
-- "The Millions"
