Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

Blurb: Old friends Clive Linley and Vernon Haliday meet outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both had been her lovers before they reached their current eminence - as had Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a man tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow, the two friends will make a disastrous pact, the consequences of which nether could ever have foreseen.

ISBN: 9780099535133(Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Vintage Books

Pages: 178 (Fiction)

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3. Study guide for the book

4. Author's official page for the book

5. Review of the book

Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)

Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

Blurb: After an impulsive affair with a student, David Lurie is forced to resign from the University where he teaches poetry. He retreats to his daughter's isolated smallholding in the South African bush, where, for a time, the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting, and a savage attack is to bring into relief all the fault lines in his life.

ISBN: 9780099535140 (Paperback)

Year: 1999

Publisher: Vintage Books

Pages: 220 (Fiction)

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1. Wikipedia page for the novel

2. Wikipedia page for the film based on the novel

3. Review of the book

4. Reading guide for the book

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