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A phenomenal writer' Sunday Times

An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.

Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone''s mind.

Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies's emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn''t come off quite as he expects.

''Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language'' Financial Times



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No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it * Observer *
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time * Psychologies *
Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language * Financial Times *
Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth * Daily Telegraph *
The best novelist of his generation * Independent *

The Pregnant Widow

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 31 March 2011
      ISBN-13 9780099488736
      978-0099488736
      ISBN-10 0099488736
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A phenomenal writer' Sunday Times

      An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.

      Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone''s mind.

      Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies's emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn''t come off quite as he expects.

      ''Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language'' Financial Times



      Trade Review
      No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it * Observer *
      One of the funniest books I've read in a long time * Psychologies *
      Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language * Financial Times *
      Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth * Daily Telegraph *
      The best novelist of his generation * Independent *

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