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The Easy Way Out

The Easy Way Out 1

by Steven Amsterdam
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/08/2016
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A brand new novel everyone will be talking about from the award-winning author of Things We Didn't See Coming and What The Family Needed.

If you could help someone in pain, would you?

Evan is a nurse, a suicide assistant. His job is legal . . . just. He's the one at the hospital who hands out the last drink to those who ask for it.

Evan's friends don't know what he does during the day. His mother, Viv, doesn't know what he's up to at night. And his supervisor suspects there may be trouble ahead.

As he helps one patient after another die, Evan pushes against legality, his own morality and the best intentions of those closest to him, discovering that his own path will be neither quick nor painless.

He knows what he has to do.

In this powerful novel, award-winning author Steven Amsterdam challenges readers to face the most taboo and heartbreaking of dilemmas. Would you help someone end their life?

'There's something fresh and engaging about Steven Amsterdam's writing ' - Australian Women's Weekly

'Amsterdam is so damn good. He is up there with the best, Delillo and the like, original as Tsolkias, but most importantly he is a master storyteller in his own right, assured and compelling, he somehow articulates things you know deep down but never been able to put your finger on. I never want to stop reading him.' - Anna Krien, bestselling author of Night Games, Into The Woods and Us and Them

ISBN:
9780733636271
9780733636271
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-08-2016
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
234x154x20mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Steven Amsterdam

Steven Amsterdam is the award-winning author of Things We Didn't See Coming (winner of the AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR, shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award for Fiction and longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award) and What The Family Needed (AWW Great Read and longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC literary award).

He lives in Melbourne with his partner where he works as a palliative care nurse.

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The Easy Way Out conjures a speculative version of our current society in which assisted dying becomes a legally treacherous, but legal none-the-less, trade. Steven Amsterdam’s fiction is sharply written and at times, blackly funny and he uses his ability here to answer the question of who. Who would take up the responsibility of helping others to die?

It goes without saying that the book has a hugely intriguing premise but what’s refreshing is the compassionate and intelligent approach to writing on the subject. The character of Evan, our nurse with the Nebutal, is remarkably human and it’s rewarding reading to see him develop and change in response to the path he chooses.

This is a subject that needs to be written about and Amsterdam is the perfect writer to do so. His is a brave and thought-provoking novel and I’m sure everyone will be talking about it.

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