The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-59357-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

For lunch there were the leftovers from the (very distant) night before. And then they were gone.

“You know,” said an equable Scheherazade, “she’s better than us.”

“Who is?” said Keith.

“Ruaa.”

Lily said, “Oh, come on. Why? Because she wears an instrument of torture? And why’s it black? Black traps the heat. Why not white? Why are they dressed as widows?”

“Well that may be true. But she’s better than us.”

Keith went on staring out, long after the little sports car had dropped over the slopes of the first foothill. And when he turned away there was no one there, no Scheherazade, no Lily, no one at all, and he felt suddenly empty, suddenly alone under the sky. He stood at the poolside and stared. The water was motionless and for now translucent; he could see the copper coins and a single flipper. Then the light began to change, as a cloud hurried sideways to shield the modesty of the sun, and a shape like a dark starfish came writhing up from the depths. Only to meet its original—a falling leaf—as the surface changed from glass to mirror.

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