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Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

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Format: Paperback

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EAN: 9780099535133
Published: 6 Aug 2009

 

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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.

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What the critics say

Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining
- Evening Standard

Full of gusto, straightforward and delivers blows to the gut..shocking
- Literary Review

The novel twists and turns unexpectedly... McEwan has a master's control over his instrument
- Sunday Times

A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness...superbly done...gripping
- Sunday Telegraph

Easily his most enjoyable book.. McEwan writes here with unobstrusive panache
- Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and eleven novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and On Chesil Beach.

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