Thorndike Reviewers' Choice: The Pregnant Widow : Inside History (Hardcover)

from jburlinson

The pregnant widow is not a character, but rather a metaphor of Alexander Herzen's, one which pictures a societal condition in which a widely held meme (such as sexual inhibition) is discarded before a replacement is fully developed and adopted. Youth culture of the late '60's early '70's is a ca...

from bobbieharv

I've been wondering what Martin Amis's writing is like, and this book seemed like it might be a good start, but I have to say if this is the best he can do, I won't be reading any more of his books. All the people and relationships and even the writing just seemed shallow - that people change ove...

from Cariola

Through his protagonist/narrator Keith Nearing, Amis explores the sexual revolution of the late 1960s. Ensconced for the summer in an Italian castle with his girlfriend, Lily; her friend, ridiculously named Scheherezade, and visited by a dwarf count; Gloria, a Scottish tease of a dominatrix with ...

from col2910

Blurb..........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 on holiday and struggling to twist...

from sberson

A compulsively readable book. Great characters, very clever. A great read, but a rather weak ending.