Amsterdam book cover

Amsterdam (1998) is a novel by Ian McEwan, winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. It was published in a new edition a year following the award by Random House. Image File history File links Amsterdam book cover File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Amsterdam book cover File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Ian McEwan CBE, (born June 21, 1948), is a British novelist (sometimes nicknamed Ian Macabre because of the nature of his early work). ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. ...

The book begins with the funeral of Molly Lane. Guests at the funeral include: Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary; Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor; and eminent composer Clive Linley. These three share certain attributes; each has a very high opinion of himself, each was at some time Molly's lover, and each regards the dead woman's husband George, with a mixture of amusement and contempt. At the end of the novel Clive and Vernon poison each other in an act of euthanasia in Amsterdam (it does say spoiler for a reason)

Questions arise regarding moral responsibility, betrayal, revenge, rape, murder and euthanasia. Quote: "the worst of all human vices -- personal betrayal".

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• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• Has the Booker Prize chosen the nouveau Beaujolais of fiction?