***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwanEAN: 9780099272779COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 170 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th CenturyWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
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Amsterdam, England, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life
A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness, One of the finest writers alive, Full of gusto, straightforward, and delivers blows to the gut...shocking, McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache, Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
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***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge. In the weeks that follow, Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined. Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwanEAN: 9780099272779COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 170 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th CenturyWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Amsterdam, England, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
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The Girl who survived her mother -Moshitadi Lehlomela
Lehlomela offers a biographical rendition of her childhood experiences and how she got to discover and label her woundedness. She takes us through her journey where we start by sympathising, then empathising and finally those of us who have this would feel like we are reading our life story. I finished that book feeling unburdened. By writing her story, she named and voiced my wounds. I first felt triggered and then unpacked my healing. This book is for anyone who can't explain why they have a complicated relationship with their mother. It's not for the faint-hearted, but it's a worthy read. If you can't afford it and are in Johannesburg, it is available at Johannesburg Public Libraries for those with Library cards.
Ek het groot geword met Portchie in my ouers se huis - dis vir my onsettend mooi om te lees hoe Portchie oor 30 jaar sukses gebou het. Dit lees soos ‘n film.