A review by timweed
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

3.0

Yeah, didn't love this one. It was readable and the writing was excellent on a sentence level, but in so many places the narrative seemed deliberately obscure. It's possible that this was all smoke-and-mirrors put in place to disguise the fact that this novel, on the most basic level, is a story of adolescent sexual fetishes sustained over a lifetime, and who wants to read a book like that? To the novelist's credit I kept reading, but at the end I wasn't all that glad I did. Oh well.