Adam Thirlwell (born 1978) is a British novelist and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.. He is assistant editor of Areté, an arts tri-quarterly. In 2003 he published his first novel, Politics.
Thirlwell displays a pleasing ear for the rhythms and pronunciations of the spoken word, and offers some good insights into the mixture of motives, and the failures of understanding, that characterise our interactions.
And Thirlwell revels in the near-banality of it all -- especially of the sex.
Thirlwell also imposes himself on the reader: it's not enough for him to analyse and comment, he goes so far as to acknowledge the reader -- and occasionally oversteps his bounds with baseless assumptions and ambitions.
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