The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis is a book you will enjoy reading. Story is set in 1970s. !960 are considered to be the era which launched the sexual revolution, and which affected the lives of each and every person in the west born after the secone world war.
Martin Amis, in the book "The Pregnant Widow", plots the long summer holiday at a a castle in Italy where six young people are vacationing in 1970. Then happen a tragicomedy of events.
All the six persons are trapped in the history of 1960s sexual revolution, where girls are acting as boys and boys continue to act like. The main character Keith Nearing is a 20 years old guy who is a literature student all bunged up with the English novel and is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. "The Pregnant Widow" is a brilliant work by Martin Amis
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