Amsterdam

Ian McEwan
Vintage • 2009

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 1998 On 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 Moll...y'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 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.
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  • Počet strán: 178 strán
  • ISBN13:9780099535133
  • Originálny názov: Amsterdam

Čo všetko je morálne? Čo spadá pod správne rozhodnutia? Názov: Amsterdam Autor: Ian McEwan Rok vydania v originálnom jazyku: 1998 Žáner: súčasné, fikcia, dramatické Séria: Diel: “He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn’t really much else to do. Make something, and die.” Na Mollyinom pohrebe sa stretávajú dvaja starí priatelia. … Čítať ďalej Amsterdam

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 1998 On 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 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.

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