![]() ![]() ![]() 'Every lost generation needs its memorial and now at last we have The Adulterants. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial. The Adulterants would be a coming-of-age story if its protagonist could only forget that he is thirty-three years old. Enter the world of ironic misanthropy and semi-ironic underachievement, of competitively sensitive men, catastrophic open marriages, and lots of Internet righteousness. ![]() But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse.īrace yourself for an encounter with the modern everyman. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal but he dreams of making a difference one day. Brace yourself for a wickedly funny look at the modern everyman. A collection of his poems, O Positive, was published in 2019. ![]() He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. Joe Dunthorne is the author of three novels: Submarine, Wild Abandon and The Adulterants. 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 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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