| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Genres: | Fiction Books, Contemporary Books, Literary Fiction |
| Authors: | Ian McEwan |
| Pages: | 208 pages |
| ISBN13: | 9780385494243 |
| Tags: | Fiction Books, Contemporary Books, Literary Fiction Books, Free Books, PDF Books |
| Language: | en |
| Type: | Digital |
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) from the bestselling author of Atonement.
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…
