The Pregnant Widow
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BeschrijvingThe 1960s, as is well known, saw the launch of the sexual revolution, which radically affected the lives of every Westerner… Meer
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The Pregnant Widow
The 1960s, as is well known, saw the launch of the sexual revolution, which radically affected the lives of every Westerner fortunate enough to be born after the Second World War. But a revolution is a revolution - contingent and sanguinary. In the words of the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen: The death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that what the departing world leaves behind it is not an heir but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass. In many senses, including the literal, it was a velvet revolution; but it wasn't bloodless. Nor was it complete. Even today, in 2009, the pregnancy is still in its second trimester. Martin Amis, in "The Pregnant Widow", takes as his control experiment a long, hot summer holiday in a castle in Italy, where half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea change of 1970. The result is a tragicomedy of manners, combining the wit of Money with the historical sense of "Time's Arrow" and "House of Meetings".
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| ISBN: | 9780224084369 |
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| Bindwijze: | Paperback |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Auteur(s): | Martin Amis |
| Uitgever: | Jonathan Cape |
| Jaar van uitgifte: | 2010 |
| Pagina's: | 469 |
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