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Amsterdam

Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

Amsterdam is a 1998 novel by British writer Ian McEwan, for which he was awarded the 1998 Booker Prize.

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“He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.”

Ian McEwan book Amsterdam

Source: Amsterdam

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“We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.”

Ian McEwan book Amsterdam

Page 71.
Amsterdam (1998)

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