Amsterdam

The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality tale--cleverly disguised as a comic novel--from the acclaimed 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 eminence: 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...

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 11/02/1999
ISBN: 9780385494243
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.15w x 0.55d
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 11/07/1999 pg. 42
Entertainment Weekly 12/03/1999 pg. 93
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104