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Amsterdam

Ian McEwan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:29th Apr '99

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Amsterdam cover

Re-jacketed in stylish new series style, Amsterdam won the 1998 Man Booker Prize.

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***

Two old friends – Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday – meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Clive is Britain’s most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge.

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

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 *

  • Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1998

ISBN: 9780099272779

Dimensions: 199mm x 128mm x 13mm

Weight: 158g

192 pages