A review by bryce_is_a_librarian
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

4.0

A born three point fiver. Slight as can be, but with some absolutely cracking one liners, paragraphs and lit criticism (natch). Then again when you're favorite parts of a book are the criticism of other books, rather than the story and plot, that kind of suggests a certain structural weakness. And I don't know that the underlying premise of the novel (that sleeping with a woman with a large clitoris dooms a man to a life of sexual neurosis) scans.

But in the final sixty pages of the book or so we get some of what Bruce Lee would refer to as emotional content, and one of my favorite dialogue exchanges in an Amis novel, so that rounds it up to a four.