Amsterdam -- Ian McEwan, Paperback

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned (The New York Times).

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 a newspaper editor. 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...

Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons, coming in September!

Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 11/02/1999
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.15w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780385494243
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/07/1999 pg. 42
Entertainment Weekly 12/03/1999 pg. 93
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104

About the Author
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the novels Nutshell; The Children Act; Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets.