Fiction

The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam

Item: The Easy Way Out
Author: Fiona Wright

by Fiona Wright •

September 2016, no. 384

Hachette $29.99 pb, 272 pp, 9780733636271

Fiction

The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam

by Fiona Wright •

September 2016, no. 384

For a novel about death – assisted dying, more specifically – The Easy Way Out is incredibly funny. Steven Amsterdam has a wry sense of humour, which is always at work throughout the book, and his sardonic narrator, Evan, is perfectly pitched to offset the darkness of, and the discomfort around, the novel's subject matter.

Fiona Wright

Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic from Sydney. Her most recent book of essays, The World Was Whole, was published in October 2018. Fiona worked as an editor at Giramondo Publishing for five years. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Sydney University, and is the host of Six Degrees From the City, a podcast about writers and Western Sydney.