![]() 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. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. 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. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam's outcome-it's only a matter of who will kill whom. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. Digital Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 1998 The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. 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. 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. ![]()
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