Amsterdam >>>> A SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<

Ian McEwan

ISBN 10: 0224051709 / ISBN 13: 9780224051705

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1998

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A near fine UK first edition, first printing hardback (small stain to textblock) in a near fine clipped first state dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request.

Seller Inventory # 005193

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amsterdam >>>> A SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224051709
• ISBN 13: 9780224051705
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

, 178 pages, SIGNED by the author on title page

Review

When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam's outcome--it's only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly's most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writer's craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot. --Lisa Jardine