Amsterdam
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Amsterdam
- Wydawnictwo:
- Doubleday, Penguin Random House
- Data wydania:
- 1999-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1999-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 208
- Czas czytania
- 3 godz. 28 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0385496486
- Tagi:
- literatura brytyjska literatura anglojęzyczna Nagroda Bookera
- Inne
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).