Description
Title: Amsterdam
Artist or Composer: Ian McEwan
UPC: 9780385494243
Label: Vintage
Released: 1999
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 209
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher :
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is “a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned” (The New York Times) f
rom the bestselling author of Atonement.
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London 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 is Britain’s most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly 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 with consequences that neither could have foreseen…
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