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Overview
On a chilly February day two old friends meet outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. In the days that follow, Clive and Vernon will make a pact that will have consequences neither has foreseen.
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Editions
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998 (178 p., ISBN: 0224051709).
(Audio / Read by Alan Bates). London: HarperCollins, 1998 (4 cassettes, ISBN: 0001055666).
Amsterdam (Italian / Trans. by Susanna Basso). Torino: Einaudi, 1998 (170 p., ISBN: 880614992X).
New York: Nan A. Talese, 1999 (193 p., ISBN: 0385494238).
London: Vintage, 1999 (178 p., ISBN: 0099272776).
New York: Anchor Books, 1999 (193 p., ISBN: 0385494246).
Toronto: Knopf, 1999 (ISBN: 0676971857).
Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999 (178 p., ISBN: 0676972179).
(Large Print). Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1999 (232 p., ISBN: 0786217960).
(Large Print). Bath: Windsor, 1999 (224 p., ISBN: 075401326X).
(Audio / Read by Arthur Addison). Newport Beach, CA: Books on Tape, 1999
(3 cassettes/4 CDs, 4.5 hrs.).(Audio). Los Angeles: The Publishing Mills, 1999 (4 cassettes, ISBN: 1575110601).
Amsterdam (Russian / Trans. by V. Golysheva). Moskva: Nezavisimaia gazeta, 1999 (163 p., ISBN: 5867120708).
Amszterdam (Hungarian). Budapest: Scolar Kiadó, 1999 (183 p.).
Amsut'erudam (Korean / Trans. by Chang-yol So). Soul: Hyondae Munhak, 1999 (261 p., ISBN: 8972750999).
Amsterdam (Spanish / Trans. by Jesús Zulaika). Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1999 (198 p., ISBN: 8433968904).
(Large Print). Bath: Paragon, 2000 (224 p., ISBN: 0754022420).
Amsterdam (French / Trans. by Suzanne V. Mayoux). Paris: Gallimard, 2001 (195 p., ISBN: 2070754065).
Amsterdam'da Duello (Turkish). Can Yayinlari (ISBN: 9750700368).
Amsterdam (Estonian / Trans. by Anne Lange). Huma, 2002 (168 p.).
Selected Reviews and Criticism
Baker, Phil. 'Comfy Conspiracies', Times Literary Supplement, 4979, 4 September 1998: 9.
Keenan, John. 'Foreign Affairs of the Heart', Guardian (London), 5 September 1998: 8.
Burrows, Stuart. 'Lost Promise', New Statesman, 11 September 1998: 47-48.
Broeder, Leonoor. 'Verbeten strijd', de Volkskrant, 2 October 1998.
Glaister, Dan. 'Third Time Lucky As McEwan Satire Wins Booker Prize', The Guardian (London), 28 October 1998: 1.
Keenan, John, Alain De Botton, and Adam Mars-Jones. 'What the Critics Say', The Guardian (London), 28 October 1998: 1.
Levy, Paul. 'Eyes on the Prize', Wall Street Journal, 232:84, 28 October 1998: A20. [Profile of McEwan upon winning the 1998 Booker Prize.]
Lyall, Sarah. 'Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Wins Booker Prize', New York Times, 28 October 1998: A4.
Streitfeld, David. 'Ian McEwan Wins Booker Prize', Washington Post, 28 October 1998: D2.
McEwan, Ian. 'Amsterdam', The Guardian (London), 29 October 1998: 2. (Excerpt from the novel.)
Moss, Stephen. 'Truth and a Stranger', The Guardian (London), 29 October 1998: 2.
Richardson, Jean. 'McEwan Wins U.K.'s Booker Prize', Publishers Weekly, 245:44, 2 November 1998: 17.
Chambers, Veronica. 'Glittering Prizes', Newsweek, 132:19, 9 November 1998: 76.
'Forecasts: Fiction', Publishers Weekly, 245:47, 23 November 1998: 60.
Bounds, Wendy. 'Bookmarks', Wall Street Journal, 27 November 1998: W5.
Dirda, Michael. 'Scandal Goings-On', Washington Post Book World, 29 November 1998: 7.
Powers, Katherine A.. 'In the Country of Doubt', Boston Globe, 29 November 1998: F1.
Caso, Frank. 'Advance Reviews: Amsterdam', Booklist, 1 December 1998: 620.
Kakutani, Michiko. 'Prosperous Connivers Facing Fateful Decisions', New York Times, 1 December 1998: E1.
Waters, Juliet. 'The Little Chill', Montreal Mirror, 3 December 1998.
Gray, Paul. 'The Moral Low Ground', Time, 152:23, 7 December 1998: 225.
Merkin, Daphne. 'Absence of Malice', New Yorker, 74:38, 7-14 December 1998: 197-199.
Timson, Judith. 'Dances with Death', Maclean's, 111:49, 7 December 1998: 72-73.
Seligman, Craig. 'Amsterdam', Salon.com, 9 December 1998.
Davies, Peter Ho. 'From Victors to Victims a Political Fable of Millennial Revenge in Britain', Chicago Tribune, 13 December 1998: 14.
Vidimos, Robin. 'Death Pact Clever Catalyst in Haunting Amsterdam', Denver Post, 13 December 1998: G4.
Wiegand, David. 'Deceit in the Name of Duty / Humorous Novel Satirizes Millennial Moral Decay', San Francisco Chronicle, 13 December 1998: 2.
Wolfe, Peter. 'Ian McEwan Is Wickedly on Target When Portraying Human Nature', St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 13 December 1998: D5.
Elie, Paul. 'Going Dutch', The Village Voice, 16-22 December 1998.
Charles, Ron. 'Friends Strike Out in Dark Comedy', Christian Science Monitor, 91:16, 17 December 1998: 21.
Donahue, Deirdre. 'McEwan's Amsterdam Worth a Quick Visit', USA Today, 24 December 1998: D7.
Eder, Richard. 'Where Morality Is No Obstacle--but Judgment Is Harsh', Los Angeles Times, 25 December 1998: E4.
Pritchard, William H. 'Publish and Perish', New York Times Book Review, 27 December 1998: 4.
Hoffert, Barbara. 'Book Reviews: Fiction', , Library Journal, 124:1, 1 January 1999: 154.
Lange, Alexandra. 'Shorts', New York, 32:1. 11 January 1999: 56.
Annan, Gabriele. 'Wages of Sin', New York Review of Books, 46:1, 14 January 1999: 7-8.
McCay, Mary A.. 'Going Dutch', Times-Picayune, 24 January 1999: D6.
Levy, Ariel. 'Double Indemnity', New York, 32:3, 25 January 1999: 83.
Rubin, Sylvia. 'Ian McEwan's Humorous Path To Amsterdam', San Francisco Chronicle, 3 February 1999: E1.
Kaplan, Fred. 'The Moods and Scenes of Ian McEwan', Boston Globe, 2 March 1999: E1.
Geracimos, Ann. 'Bicontinental Best-Seller', Insight on the News, 15:12, 29 March 1999: 36.
Allen, Brooke. 'Illustrations of Inertia & Compromise', New Criterion, 17:8, April 1999: 60-64.
Buhagiar, Michael. 'Goddess Denied', Quadrant, 43:4, April 1999: 85-86.
Lezard, Nicholas. 'Morality Bites', Guardian, 24 April 1999.
O Gorman, Rochelle. 'A Satirical Tale of Morality and Intrigue', Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1999: E3 (Audiobook).
Maus, Stephan. 'Ganz schön vorlaut', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 October 1999: 50.
August, Hans-Jürgen. 'McEwan: Amsterdam', Wiener Zeitung, 18 February 2000.
Chetrinescu, Dana. 'Rethinking Spatiality: The Degraded Body in Ian McEwan's Amsterdam', B. A. S.: British and American Studies/Revista de Studii Britanice si Americane, 7, 2001: 157-165. (Reprinted with the permission of the author. Also available in .pdf)
Koloze, Jeff. 'Bizarre Fiction on the Right-to-Life Issues', in Joseph W. Koterski, Life and Learning, X: Proceedings of the Tenth University Faculty for Life Conference, (University Faculty for Life, Washington, DC, 2002): 307-319.
Kohn, Robert E. "The Fivesquare Amsterdam of Ian McEwan." Critical Survey, 16:1, 2004: 89-106.