Amsterdam / Ian McEwan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McEwan, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers--England--London--Fiction.

Composers.

England--London.

Editors--England--London--Fiction.

Editors.

Foreign ministers--Great Britain--Fiction.

Foreign ministers.

Great Britain.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Great Britain--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

193 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition in the U.S.A.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1999.

Summary:

After an explosion of the highest critical praise for Enduring Love, Ian McEwan continues to astonish with his latest masterpiece "Amsterdam". All of the gripping precision we have come to admire from of one of the finest writers of our time is here in full -- but now with a fabulous comic twist.

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 is Britain's most successful modern composer; Vernon is editor of the quality broadsheet 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 that will have consequences that neither has foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will he fighting for his political life.

A contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty, this short novel is perhaps the most purely delectable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written. And why Amsterdam. What happens there to Clive and Vernon is the most delicious shock in a novel brimming with surprises.

Notes:

"Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize"--Jacket.

ISBN:

0385494238

OCLC:

39724242