McEWAN, Ian - Amsterdam - (Paperback)

Book still readable but pages have started to discolor and cover shows much wear - Same edition Google image used - Has a book exchange stamp inside.  >>>    BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 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 Mollys lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britains 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 Mollys funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen