Categoría | Contemporánea |
ISBN | 9780385494243 |
Peso | 0.30 |
Idioma | Inglés |
Editorial | Anchor Books |
Autor | McEwan, Ian |
Tapa | Rústica |
Año | 1999 |
Ciudad | Nueva York |
Páginas | 208 |
The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality tale--cleverly disguised as a comic novel--from the acclaimed author of Atonement. On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen...