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The Adulterants
by Joe Dunthorne.
Hamish Hamilton, 173 pp., £12.99, February 2018,978 0 241 30547 8 Show More
by Joe Dunthorne.
Hamish Hamilton, 173 pp., £12.99, February 2018,
“... services.Readers who are allergic to irony and archness may not be impressed – the book is so arch that you could drive a horse and carriage through it – but it provides a steady flow of good gags and is, in its way, satisfyingly resonant too. In its straightforward comic determination to please, The Adulterants is without many precedents in ... ”