![]() ![]() But the wonder of The Adulterants is how we feel ourselves rooting for Ray even as we acknowledge that he deserves everything he gets. Throughout a series of escalating catastrophes, our deadpan antihero keeps up a merciless mental commentary on the foibles and failings of those around him, and the vicissitudes of modern urban life: internet trolls, buy-to-let landlords, open marriages, and the threat posed by more sensitive men. ![]() With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old. The Adulterants would be a coming-of-age story if its protagonist could only forget that he is thirty-three years old. Order a The Adulterants today from WHSmith. Not until the summer of 2011, when discontent is rising on the streets and within his marriage. He has never been caught up in a riot, nor arrested, nor tagged by the state, nor become an international hate-figure. He has never committed adultery with his actual body. He is a man who has never been punched above the neck. Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated group of friends, and a wife, Garthene, who is pregnant. ![]()
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