num_pages: 208
description: 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 ) f rom 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 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 .
language: English
title: Amsterdam
titlecomplete: Amsterdam
characters: George Lane, Julian Garmony, Vernon Halliday, Molly Lane, Clive Linley, Rose Garmony
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 52426
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Anchor Books/Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group