Sally Amis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1954
Place of Birth: Uplands, Swansea, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 08-Nov-2000
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Sally Amis
- The Pregnant Widow is a novel by the English writer Martin Amis, published by Jonathan Cape on 4 February 2010.
- Its theme is the feminist revolution, which Amis sees as incomplete and bewildering for women, echoing the view of the 19th-century Russian writer, Alexander Herzen, that revolution is "a long night of chaos and desolation".
- The "pregnant widow", a phrase taken from Herzen's From the other shore (1848–1850), is the point at which the old order has given way, the new one not yet born.
- Amis said in 2007 that "consciousness is not revolutionised by the snap of a finger.
- And feminism, I reckon, is about halfway through its second trimester."The story is set in a castle owned by a cheese tycoon in Campania, Italy, where Keith Nearing, a 20-year-old English literature student; his girlfriend, Lily; and her friend, Scheherazade, are on holiday during the hot summer of 1970, the year that Amis says "something was changing in the world of men and women".
- The narrator is Keith's superego, or conscience, in 2009. The novel was a work-in-progress for the best part of seven years, his first since House of Meetings (2006).
- Originally set for release in late 2007, its publication was delayed to 2008, when he made what he describes as a "terrible decision" to abandon what he had written to that point, and begin again, building the story up from one section he retained, the part about Italy.
- The long gestation period resulted in its expansion to some 370 pages, making it his longest novel since The Information in 1995.
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