description: On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a 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; Vernon is editor of the quality broadsheet 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 neither has 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 contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty, this short novel is perhaps the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written. And why Amsterdam? What happens there to Clive and Vernon is the most delicious shock in a novel brimming with surprises.
language: English
title: Amsterdam
titlecomplete: Amsterdam
characters: Vernon Halliday, Rose Garmony, Clive Linley, George Lane, Julian Garmony, Molly Lane
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 52445
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Books on Tape