The Pregnant Widow

In the heat-soaked summer of 1970, twenty-year-old Keith Nearing, a literature-obsessed student navigates the confusing new freedoms of love and lust during a holiday in an Italian castle. Dazzled by beautiful women, and torn between the romantic and cynical sides of his nature, Keith is swept along by a cultural revolution whose consequences he—and the novel—are still reckoning with decades later.

Returning to the era and the milieu of Martin Amis's youthful breakout novels, The Pregnant Wi...