In his debut novel, 2002’s The Frog King, Adam Davies flexed a hyper-clever writing style that would have grated, were it not the perfect first-person voice of the book’s narrator and central character—shameless, social-climbing New Yorker Harry Driscoll. Narrated with equally obnoxious first-person verbosity but with none of the gritty sincerity that made Frog King […]