The Adulterants

<p><b>From the wickedly funny author of <i>Submarine</i> 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.</b><br><br><b>'Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm</b> - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart' Paul Murray, author of <i>Skippy Dies</i><br><br>Ray is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal but he dreams of making a difference one day. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse.<br><br>Brace yourself for an encounter with the modern everyman. Enter the world of ironic misanthropy and semi-ironic underachievement, of competitively sensitive men, catastrophic open marriages, and lots of Internet righteousness. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial.<br><br><b>'Every lost generation needs its memorial and now at last we have <i>The Adulterants</i></b>. It's very sad and very funny and written with an innocence that in fact is diabolical' Adam Thirlwell, author of <i>Lurid and Cute</i></p> <p><b>From the wickedly funny author of <i>Submarine</i> 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.</b><br><br><b>'Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm</b> - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart' Paul Murray, author of <i>Skippy Dies</i><br><br>Ray is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal but he dreams of making a difference one day. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse.<br><br>Brace yourself for an encounter with the modern everyman. Enter the world of ironic misanthropy and semi-ironic underachievement, of competitively sensitive men, catastrophic open marriages, and lots of Internet righteousness. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial.<br><br><b>'Every lost generation needs its memorial and now at last we have <i>The Adulterants</i></b>. It's very sad and very funny and written with an innocence that in fact is diabolical' Adam Thirlwell, author of <i>Lurid and Cute</i></p>