The pregnant widow : inside history / Martin Amis.
By: Amis, Martin.
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BookPublisher: New York : Knopf, 2010Edition: 1st North American ed.Description: 370 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781400044528 (trade); 1400044529.Subject(s): College students -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction | British -- Italy -- Fiction | Nineteen seventy, A.D. -- Fiction | Memory -- Fiction | College students -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction | British -- Fiction | Italy -- Fiction | Nineteen seventies -- Fiction | Memory -- FictionDDC classification: 823/.914 | [Fic] Summary: In the summer of 1970, Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old college student, stays in a castle in Italy with a group of friends, including his girlfriend Lily and her beautiful but shallow friend, Scheherazade, with whom he is hopelessly and desperately in love. Keith's hapless attempts to secretly court Scheherazade shape his subsequent love life for decades to come.
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In the summer of 1970, Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old college student, stays in a castle in Italy with a group of friends, including his girlfriend Lily and her beautiful but shallow friend, Scheherazade, with whom he is hopelessly and desperately in love. Keith's hapless attempts to secretly court Scheherazade shape his subsequent love life for decades to come.
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