Delia reviewed Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Review of 'Amsterdam' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Very 1990s. Very bad.
E-book
English language
Published Feb. 3, 2010 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan: Amsterdam (EBook, 2010, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-43479-1
- OCLC Number:
- 650015606
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3 stars
(19 reviews)
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 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 …
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 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).From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ikwezi reviewed Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Review of 'Amsterdam' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I don't know how he makes me care so much about these effete, wealthy old white protagonists of his, I guess that's just the measure of how good of a writer he is. The ending of this book was absolutely, unforgivably ridiculous, though, and he loses a star for it, whatever the 1998 Booker Prize committee thought.
