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Amsterdam
Amsterdam
paperback
Published:
29 April, 1999
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Description
Two old friends - Clive 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, and to their doom.
'The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument' Sunday Times
Prizes
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1998
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099272779 |
| ISBN10 | 0099272776 |
| Number Of Pages | 192 |
| Item Weight | 172 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 13 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness * Sunday Telegraph *
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 * Literary Review *
McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache * Daily Telegraph *
Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining * Evening Standard *
Even more timely today than when it won the Booker in 1998 * Daily Mail *
The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument * Sunday Times *
This is not one to read if you’re in need of a joyful book, but perfect if you want a well-crafted, can’t-look-away kind of story * i *
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Author's Bio
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.