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Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
其他書名
A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010-03-31
主題Fiction / Romance / ContemporaryFiction / PsychologicalFiction / Humorous / Black Humor
ISBN03074347969780307434791
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mtJC4XVjVfEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Atonement.

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 a newspaper editor. 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…