‘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. 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.
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 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. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Dunthorne’s precocious talent and cheerful fondness for the teenage male are showcased in Submarine.
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