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Author Name
Ian McEwan
Title Amsterdam A Novel
Binding Paperback
Publisher Anchor 1999
ISBN Number
0385494246 / 9780385494243
Seller ID 11134
Nice copy with some light page tanning. ; 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 208 pages; 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 editor of the newspaper The Judge. 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. 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. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World).
Classics Literature & Fiction Books Literary
Price =
5.95 USD
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