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SOLD OUT! Martin Amis talks to Claire Armitstead
The Pregnant Widow
LF213
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| SEP |
Monday 20 Sep 10
8.30pm-9.45pm
£12
SOLD OUT
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc. This event is also sponsored by GRANTA
Martin Amis is the author of ten novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most recently The Second Plane. His latest novel The Pregnant Widow (Jonathan Cape, February 2010) is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and gloriously risqué. Summer 1970 – a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. It is the most eagerly anticipated novel of the year and Martin Amis at his fearless best.
Claire Armitstead is the Guardian's literary editor. She was previously arts editor, having worked as a theatre critic for the Ham & High, the Financial Times and the Guardian. As a published author she has contributed essays to New Performance (Macmillan, 1994) and Women: A Cultural Review (Oxford University Press, 1996). She makes regular appearances on radio and television as a cultural commentator on literature and the arts.
Photo credit: Tom Craig
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc. This event is also sponsored by GRANTA
Martin Amis is the author of ten novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction, most recently The Second Plane. His latest novel The Pregnant Widow (Jonathan Cape, February 2010) is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and gloriously risqué. Summer 1970 – a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. It is the most eagerly anticipated novel of the year and Martin Amis at his fearless best.
Claire Armitstead is the Guardian's literary editor. She was previously arts editor, having worked as a theatre critic for the Ham & High, the Financial Times and the Guardian. As a published author she has contributed essays to New Performance (Macmillan, 1994) and Women: A Cultural Review (Oxford University Press, 1996). She makes regular appearances on radio and television as a cultural commentator on literature and the arts.
Photo credit: Tom Craig