Amsterdam
1st Anchor Books ed.
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Word Count
48,250 words, Guess
Page Count
193 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveamsterdam00mcew
- Internet Archiveamsterdam00mcew_0
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780965086141
- ISBN-100385494246
- ISBN-139780385494243
and 5 more
- LibraryThing65541
- Goodreads6862
- OCLC Control Number42992366
- Better World Books9780385494243
- Open LibraryOL17617224M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
Description
Winner of the 1998 Booker PrizeOn a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a 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 as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had 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 that will have consequences neither has 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.
Description
In the affairs of his dead wife, a British publisher discovers compromising pictures of the foreign secretary who was her lover. An opportunity for revenge on both the political and personal level.
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