Mass Market Paperback, 252 pages

French language

Published Aug. 29, 2002 by Gallimard.

ISBN:
978-2-07-042451-1
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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.

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Review of 'Amsterdam' on 'Goodreads'

Hoewel de stijl van Ian McEwan het niet doet vermoeden, is Amsterdam (1998) een tragedie van shakespeareaanse orde. Wat begint als een onderonsje van succesvolle boomers die elkaar weer tegenkomen tijdens een begrafenis, leidt tot een dans waarin ambitie en eigenwaan door een ongelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden omslaan in wraakzucht en daarmee het einde inluiden van de hoofdpersonages.

Redacteur Vernon Halliday zet in op het verkeerde paard wanneer hij Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Julian Garmony in een kwaad daglicht wil stellen door travestiefoto’s te publiceren. Zijn vriend Clive Liney rekent hem aan dat de publicatie niet werkelijk bedoeld is om een misstand aan de kaak te stellen, maar is ingegeven door Vernons afkeer van de politicus.

What Clive had intended on Thursday and posted on Friday was, You deserve to be sacked. What Vernon was bound to understand on Tuesday in the aftermath of his dismissal was, You deserve …

Review of 'Amsterdam' on 'Goodreads'

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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