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Alfred A. Knopf
May 2010
On Sale: May 11, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 1400044529
EAN: 9781400044528
Hardcover
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Fiction
The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the
chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though
blindly dedicated to the cause, its nubile foot soldiers
have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the
death of one social order and the birth of another, there
exists a state of terrifying purgatory—or, as Alexander
Herzen put it, a pregnant widow. Keith Nearing is stuck in an exquisite limbo. Twenty years
old and on vacation from college, Keith and an assortment of
his peers are spending the long, hot summer in a castle in
Italy. The tragicomedy of manners that ensues will have an
indelible effect on all its participants, and we witness,
too, how it shapes Keith’s subsequent love life for decades
to come. Bitingly funny, full of wit and pathos, The
Pregnant Widow is a trenchant portrait of young lives being
carried away on a sea of change.
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