AMIS, MARTIN
An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects.
And now in the twenty first century, as Keith reflects on that summer holiday, the aftershocks of the sexual revolution finally catch up with him.
The Pregnant Widow is gloriously risqué and ferociously funny. It is Martin Amis at his fearless best.
Martin Amis (Swansea, Sur de Gales, 1949) é autor de nove novelas, entre elas Money (1984), The Information (1995) e Yellow Dogs (2004). Entre os seus libros salientan tamén a autobiografía Experience (2002) e a crónica Koba the Dread (2002). No ano 2006, Editorial Galaxia publicou a tradución galega da súa novela A casa dos encontros e no 2010 A viúva preñada.
