Joe Dunthorne's new book is a pleasure - I was very fortunate to get to read his book Submarine early and reading this one was equally thrilling. A deft, brilliant, surprising joyride The Art Desk It's one not to be missed Booksellerĭark, beautifully wry, and side-splittingly excruciating, The Adulterants is a triumph of voice and vision Tea Obrehtīlisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart Paul MurrayĪ tale of modern manhood, full of malaise, melancholy and wryly funny observations S MagazineĪ sharp satire of contemporary London and the modern urban male TatlerĪ richly illuminating comedy of disappointment, uproarious and mournful, that places Joe Dunthorne triumphantly in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and (that other Swansea resident) Kingsley Amis. a pin-sharp skewering of a certain type of modern urban thirtysomething male, trapped in a protracted adolescent state. 'Every lost generation needs its memorial and now at last we have The Adulterants.Perfectly formed. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial. Enter the world of ironic misanthropy and semi-ironic underachievement, of competitively sensitive men, catastrophic open marriages, and lots of Internet righteousness. Brace yourself for an encounter with the modern everyman. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal but he dreams of making a difference one day. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. 'Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart' Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies Ray is not a bad guy.
From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy - a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties.
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