Title: Great writing, bad ending.
Product review: We know from Time's Arrow that Amis is brilliant. Now we know he can do any genre, even better, with more irony and wit. The writing in this book is faultless, unless you call his inability to hide his Englishness (for the most part he did) a fault. I admired his writing, and I enjoyed it. I can't always say this. Still, Amis needs a briefing on lithium and manic depression--he must have picked up some shallow facts from his PDR or talk shows. This part did not ring true. In the end, the problem is not whether Jennifer killed herself, but why she did. I'm generally good at playing CLUE, but where are the clues? I don't get it--does anyone? I'd love to hear that there is a cleverly encrypted message here.
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