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What do you think of the author's description of the process itself and of his decision to give it so much space?

In a relatively short novel, the author devotes many pages to Clive's creative process.

Did those feelings change? If so, at what key points?

Think about Clive and Vernon and your feelings about each at different stages of the novel.

He also won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. His bestselling novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998.

McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. While completing his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, he took a creative writing course taught by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. Ian McEwan was born on 21st June 1948 in Aldershot, England, and now lives in London. And why Amsterdam? What happens there to Clive and Vernon is the most delicious shock in a novel brimming with surprises. A contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty, this short novel is perhaps the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences neither has foreseen. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.

Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer Vernon is editor of the quality broadsheet The Judge. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane.