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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409089834
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Amsterdam

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Re-jacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, Amsterdam won the 1998 Man Booker Prize.

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***

Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam, and to their doom.

'The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument' Sunday Times

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409089834
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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About the author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Praise for Amsterdam

A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness

Sunday Telegraph

Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining

Evening Standard

A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness

Sunday Telegraph

Even more timely today than when it won the Booker in 1998

Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

Full of gusto, straightforward, and delivers blows to the gut...shocking

A. S. Byatt, Literary Review

McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache

Daily Telegraph

One of the finest writers alive

Sunday Times

The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument

John Sutherland, Sunday Times

This is not one to read if you’re in need of a joyful book, but perfect if you want a well-crafted, can’t-look-away kind of story

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