![]() I wonder whether Dunthorne is an SEO supremo, with alerts set up to track the rise in searches of "Garthene". Online, it barely exists outside this novel. To my ear, her name is admirably hideous. ![]() She is pregnant, and they spend much of their time together in pursuit of various ghastly flats. Much of the action takes place online, through instant messages and comment sections ("the bottom half of the internet"). He doesn't use the word, but our narrator, Ray, bears all the vital statistics of the "millennial": early 30s, dissatisfied, and living alternately in Clapton and on the internet. In The Adulterants, his third novel, Dunthorne turns his searchlight to another well-known character type. Hard to find more honest praise: Oliver was recognisable to everyone. ![]() It was one of those novels that everyone who hadn't written one themselves read and thought: I could do that. Oliver Tate, the teenage protagonist of Joe Dunthorne's first novel, Submarine, brought to the minds of reviewers those two pimply aesthetes of the 20th century: Adrian Mole and Holden Caulfield. ![]()
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