Delia reviewed Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Review of 'Amsterdam' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Very 1990s. Very bad.
Mass Market Paperback, 252 pages
French language
Published Aug. 29, 2002 by Gallimard.
Amsterdam
3 stars
(19 reviews)
Winner of the 1998 Booker PrizeOn 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 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.
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.
