Amsterdam
Highlights

English
Language
NA
Edition
192
Pages
9780099272779
ISBN-13
0099272779
ISBN-10Flying Vintage Publishing
Publisher
198 mm
Height
129 mm
Width
15 mm
Thickness
Paperback
BindingDescription
When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge , persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of th When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge , persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam s outcomeits only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Mollys most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writers craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot. Lisa Jardine