Description for Amsterdam
hardcover. Good clean copy showing light age and wear. Light nicks and tears to dust jacket
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 as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had 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 that will have consequences neither ... Read more
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 as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had 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 that will have consequences neither ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224051705
SKU
KMO0000483
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan has written collections of stories including First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets, and several novels, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, Atonement and Saturday. He won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam in 1998.
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