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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Amsterdam
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by Ian McEwan
category Literature & Fiction
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Amazon Editorial Review
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).
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