Joe Dunthorne
Hardcover | Pages: 173 pages Rating: 3.42 | 1035 Users | 152 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 0241305470 (ISBN13: 9780241305478) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Fresh, sharp and wickedly funny, a tragicomic tale of modern living from the author of SubmarineRay is not a bad guy. Sure, he's just cheated on his heavily pregnant wife. He secretly despises all of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal, and he can't afford any of the hovels that pass for a first-time buyer's house, and he spends his afternoons churning out listicles in his pants. But Ray is about to learn that no matter how low you sink, things can always get worse...
Brace yourself for a wickedly funny look at modernity from the comic genius behind Submarine. The Adulterants is a tale of sadistic estate agents and catastrophic open marriages, dysfunctional friendships and internet trolls, underwhelming panic on the streets of London, and one very immature man finally learning to grow up.
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| Title | : | The Adulterants |
| Author | : | Joe Dunthorne |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 173 pages |
| Published | : | February 8th 2018 by Hamish Hamilton |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 3.42 From 1035 Users | 152 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books The Adulterants
A hilarious and cutting novel of grownups behaving badly, The Adulterants is a comedy of bad manners that brings to mind Rick Moody, Chris Bachelder, and perhaps a bit of Roddy Doyle's razor sharp dialogue. A novel with a great mix of pathos and cringeworthy laughs.I rarely find a book that I will literally 'laugh out loud' reading, but this one did the trick more often than not. The jacket blurb calls Dunthorne a 'British Dave Eggers', but I'd say the more apt comparison is to Tom Perrotta - and this bears more than a little in common with 'Little Children' in its dissection of screwed-up (and screwing around) suburban young marrieds. The book never quite went where I was expecting, and that teeter-totter quality certainly added to my enjoyment. I COULD
Lovely writing, easing into the hipster London world where superficiality takes hold and turns our main overly self conscious protagonist into darker places.
I guess this is the year I read all the new comic novels by British men. I'm up to three books centered on relationship-challenged fuckups, and I've liked them all. This one is the funniest but also the most bittersweet. For many years I haven't returned to my old hardcover of High Fidelity, which I found so edifying in 1995, for fear that it would disappoint older me. The Adulterants hits a lot of the same sweet spots as early Hornby, and not in a way that makes me feel nostalgic or guilty.
This is short, sharp and hilarious novel. If youve never been the buss unusual person youre missing out, happens to be the very line that made me cackle loudly on public transport.The humour cuts through in some unfortunate but mostly just petty situations, and Dunthorne does a great job of wryly satirising modern young parents without completely abandoning them emotionally. I liked this book a lot. Its so good to laugh.
Ray as we are told is not a bad guy. He has just cheated on his pregnant wife a couple of times. He isnt popular among his friends. On most days, he doesnt like them either. His job is that of a freelance tech journalist and he doesnt do much when it comes to that as well. Everything in his life is at a languid pace nothing happens and nothing is expected to till a string of events take place, only to make him see that he has a knack to just make things spiral downward and perhaps affect lives
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