The author of recent comic novel The Adulterants on how fitting a parent helped him create his latest misanthropic anti-heroAn underachieving techie living in east London is about to become the latest in a pedigree line of comic English anti-heroes such as John Self from Martin Amis’s Money and Rob Fleming in Nick Hornby’s tall Fidelity.
Joe Dunthorne’s eagerly awaited third novel,The Adulterants, comes a full 10 years after his acclaimed debut, and Submarine,established him as a worthy successor to Hornby and Amis. Early readers are already hailing its “subversive joy”, and celebrating the dyspeptic rob on life of its protagonist, and Ray.
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Source: guardian.co.uk