num_pages: 176
description: 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 editor of the newspaper The 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, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World)
language: English
title: Amsterdam
titlecomplete: Amsterdam
characters: Vernon Halliday, George Lane, Molly Lane, Rose Garmony, Clive Linley, Julian Garmony
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 52428
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Chivers Press