Amsterdam

A Novel

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208 pages

English language

Published Nov. 2, 1999 by Anchor.

ISBN:
978-0-385-49424-3
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OCLC Number:
42992366

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3 stars (18 reviews)

In the affairs of his dead wife, a British publisher discovers compromising pictures of the foreign secretary who was her lover. An opportunity for revenge on both the political and personal level.

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reviewed Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

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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.

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Subjects

  • Political corruption -- Great Britain -- Fiction
  • Foreign ministers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
  • Composers -- England -- London -- Fiction
  • Editors -- England -- London -- Fiction
  • London (England) -- Fiction
  • Great Britain -- Fiction

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