Amsterdam A Novel
, by MCEWAN, IANNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780385494243 | 0385494246
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/2/1999
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 editor of the newspaperThe Judge.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. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel,Amsterdamis "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World).