Amsterdam: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

by Ian McEwan

3 of 5 stars 4 ratings • 0 reviews • 5 shelved
Book cover for Amsterdam

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

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…

Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
  • ISBN10 0385494246
  • ISBN13 9780385494243
  • Publish Date 2 November 1999 (first published 27 August 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Anchor Books