Amsterdam

Author: Ian McEwan

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  • : $27.95 NZD
  • : 9780099272779
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : January 1999
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Description

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge.Gorgeous, feisty Molly had had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral Clive and Vernon will make a pact that will have consequences neither has foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Promotion info

'Easily his most enjoyable book-McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache' David Profumo, Daily Telegraph 20050217

Awards

Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1998.

Reviews

"A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness" Sunday Telegraph "One of the finest writers alive" Sunday Times "Full of gusto, straightforward, and delivers blows to the gut...shocking" -- A. S. Byatt Literary Review "McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache" Daily Telegraph "Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining" Evening Standard

Author description

Ian McEwan has written two collections of short stories and ten novels. He has also written several film scripts, including The Imitation Game, The Ploughman's Lunch, Sour Sweet, The Good Son and The Innocent.