It takes the average reader 6 hours and 10 minutes to read The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The year is 1970, and Keith Nearing, a twenty-year-old literature student, is spending his summer vaction in a castle on a mountainside in Italy. The Sexual Revolution is in full-swing - a historical moment of unprecedented opportunity - and Keith and his friends are immediately caught up in its chaotic, ecstatic throes. Yet they soon discover a disturbing truth, there exists a state of liminal purgatory, once described by the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen as "a pregnant widow." As Amis deftly explores the repercussions and consequences of that one summer, he presents us with a precise and...
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis is 370 pages long, and a total of 92,500 words.
This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read The Pregnant Widow aloud.
The Pregnant Widow is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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