Winner of the Booker Prize 1998
Two old friends - Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous,witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet,The Judge.
In the weeks that follow,Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099272779Number of pages: 192Weight: 160 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 16 mm
MEDIA 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
Ian McEwan
Described as Britain's greatest living novelist,British author Ian McEwan's books include Enduring Love,Atonement,On Chesil Beach,The Children Act and Nutshell. One of a generation of writers,including Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie,who established their literary credentials in the 1970's Ian McEwan is a world-renowned writer whose novels have the rare gift of being as critically acclaimed as they are widely popular.
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