The 2011 London riots form the backdrop to a comedy approximately millennial angst and rampaging house pricesFirst-person narrators can be bloody annoying,especially in novels. To give us anything like the full fable, they need to be know-it-alls. But if their point of view is limited, and we spend half our time squinting into their peripheral vision – working out the fable from the bits they’ve shied away from due to shame,guilt or the author’s unwillingness to execute research. And then there are their endless, uninterrupted voices: describing objects, or describing people,on and on ...
There’s a terrifyingly knowing eloquence to the voice of Ray Morris, the narrator of Joe Dunthorne’s third novel, and The Adulterants. This is Ray on his wife:Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk