6/29/2023 0 Comments The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne![]() The we hit our thirties, Garthene got pregnant and we started going to viewing. Throughout our twenties, it had been embedded in our world view that even to talk about property was death itself- the clue was the word mortgage “death pledge” in French. This aspect of the book gives it its best paragraph Ray, the first person protagonist, is a tech writer, churning out pay-per-word reviews of electronic products for websites, married to a heavily pregnant ICU nurse, the two of them part of Generation Rent and searching with success for a small house they can afford – being outbid on the last family home at this price point anywhere within the M25 (a distinctly ugly masionette). ![]() ![]() A short, uninvolving and lightweight story – which (not inaccurately) describes itself on the flyleaf as dissecting the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial” with “wry affection. ![]()
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