![]() ![]() Is Ray an older version of Oliver, the teenage protagonist of Dunthorne’s 2008 debut Submarine? “In a sense, yes. But it’s certainly easier to think of more male fictional characters who share Ray’s flaws.” Anti-heroes can be careless and irresponsible “Like Ray, the female character in Miranda July’s novel, The First Bad Man, combines a hero complex with many failings. Does Ray embody a specifically male brand of haplessness? “I don’t think haplessness is exclusive to men,” says Dunthorne. Ray goes to a party and sort of cheats on his pregnant girlfriend, Garthene, while she’s working a night shift as a nurse. Hopefully, to readers, Ray is a real, breathing, flawed person.” His type is well known, but I wouldn’t write a book to create a stereotype. Of his novel’s 33-year-old tech journalist narrator, Ray, he says: “He’s a frozen man. ‘I wouldn’t write a book to create a stereotype’ ![]()
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