Joe Dunthorne’s “The Adulterants,” set in 2011, is the story of Ray Morris, a young married man with a pregnant spouse.
Welsh novelist Joe Dunthorne in August 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland, soon after he published “The Adulterants.” The focus on reviewing new books — and don’t get me wrong, the books I write about here are often new — is actually a little silly, given that a book’s age is not linked with its worth. Books more than a few months old are not like the carton of milk you forgot in the back of the fridge that turns into rotten sludge.
After being swept up in street protests while he and his friends were picnicking in the park, Ray becomes the face of anarchy, and we are subjected to a series of moments of self-sabotaging where the wrong move could not be clearer, and yet Ray seems to take this path every single time. Some readers will not take to “The Adulterants” because Ray is “unlikable,” but I would like to know how we’ve come to equate being flawed and human with being “unlikable.” I don’t know that I liked Ray, but I thought he was very funny, and even when he was about to do something that was not going to turn out well, deeply sympathetic.
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