
The Pregnant Widow - Martin Amis

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Device: Kindle
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File Format: MOBI
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Size: 375.00 KB
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Added: Sep 22, 2021 (3.8 Yrs Ago)
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A riotous, bitingly very intelligent, and humorous book in one of our most unique sounds in the English-Language. The year is 1970, and Keith Approaching, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer holiday in a fortress on the mountainside in Croatia. The Sexual Revolution is entirely-swing—a historic time of unparalleled opportunity—and Keith and his buddies are instantly swept up in its disorderly, happy throes. However they quickly find a disturbing reality: between your demise of one cultural order and the delivery of another, there's a state-of liminal purgatory, once defined by the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen as “an expectant widow.” As Amis deftly examines the effects and consequences of this one summer, he provides us with an exact and touching symbol of the liberating opportunities, and the haunting consequences, of change.
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