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Amsterdam / Ian McEwan.
Summary:
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 broadsheet The Judge. But gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger poised to be the next prime minister. What happens in the aftermath of her funeral has a profound and shocking effect on all her lovers' lives.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780676972177
- ISBN: 0676972179
- Physical Description: 178 p. ; 20 cm.
- Edition: 1stVintage Canada ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 1999.
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- Subject:
- Political corruption > Great Britain > Fiction.
Foreign ministers > Great Britain > Fiction.
Composers > England > London > Fiction.
Editors > England > London > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Great Britain > Fiction. - Genre:
- Mystery fiction.
Didactic fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Didactic fiction. - Topic Heading:
- AF.
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- 6 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC McE (Text) | 35130000096036 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
A National and International Bestseller A Globe and Mail Notable Book of 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 broadsheet The Judge. But gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger poised to be the next prime minister. What happens in the aftermath of her funeral has a profound and shocking effect on all her lovers' lives, and erupts in the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has - Random House, Inc.
A National and International Bestseller
Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction
A Globe and Mail Notable Book of 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 eminenceâClive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the broadsheet The Judge. But gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger poised to be the next prime minister. What happens in the aftermath of her funeral has a profound and shocking effect on all her lovers' lives, and erupts in the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written.