En cours de chargement...
This is the story of one man's mission to apologise for the bad things that he definitely did but which weren't all that bad, really, when you take them in context, and were almost certainly not so bad that he deserves to lose his wife and job and start receiving anonymous, threatening packages which, in turn, force him out of his top-floor flat and onto the sofa beds of his friends who are, themselves, crushed by the merciless forces of fertility and London property.
This is a story about coming of age when you are thirty-three, unemployable and about to become a father. This is for anyone who has ever felt underprepared.
Failure as a lifestyle choice
Meet Ray -- a thirty-something married Englishman who incarnates the uncertain and fragile state of masculinity in the opening decades of the 21st century. In 'The Adulterants', Joe Dunthorne succeeds in making the reader both laugh and wince at Ray's seemingly deliberate inability to attain the basic hallmarks of a well-balanced adult. Is Ray just an irresponsible and self-absorbed loser ? Or is he the victim of an increasingly unforgiving contemporary British society where young adults find it more challenging to find decent jobs that can guarantee that golden prize of homeownership in London? Therein lies the charm of 'The Adulterants', for it will appeal to both readers with a yen for derision as well as the sensitive souls who can identify with Ray's foibles and many moments of failure as a productive member of society.