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About This Novel
About youth, about the sexual revolution, about life, "To love or not to love is your freedom, and pain and numbness are my footnotes." This is the best work of the talented British novelist Martin Amis in the past twenty years. This book describes the summer of 1970, when Keith, a 20-year-old nerd, a literature college student, and his friends were on vacation in a castle in Italy. At this time, when the sexual revolution was raging and in full swing, at this unprecedented historical moment, sex filled everyone's mind. Girls behaved like boys, and boys behaved like themselves. Keith dealt with three women, and his friends were also caught up in it. In the mud of chaos, everyone was intoxicated, with their true nature revealed but unresolved, and in unbearable pain. However, they soon discovered a very disturbing fact, that is, in the changes of social order, there will always be a threshold of purification, and this is the "pregnant widow" once described by the great Russian thinker Alexander Herzen - a long night of chaos and loneliness between the death of one and the birth of another. At this moment, Keith is struggling and being baptized... "The Pregnant Widow" is considered "Amis's best work in the past twenty years" because it evokes the not-innocent youth and the sting of the sexual revolution. This atypical "romantic comedy" is also a burning echo of the British sexual revolution and feminist movement in the Italian countryside.
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