The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe - ISBN: 9780241986479
Paperback
70s adolescence: bombs, prog rock, brown wallpaper, and growing up hard.

The Rotters' Club

‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    3 September 2019

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Summary

The bestselling comic novel, now a Penguin Essential

Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe’s tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends’ coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up.

Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the for…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241986479
ISBN-10:0241986478
Author:Jonathan Coe
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:3 September 2019
Weight:227g
Dimensions:180mm x 110mm x 25mm
Series:Penguin Essentials
What They're Saying

Critics Review

One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction … a masterpiece

Wonderful storytelling – Paul MertonA book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends * Independent on Sunday *Very funny… a compulsive and gripping read. Coe has achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for * The Times *One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction … a masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *Very funny … a compulsive and gripping read. Coe has achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for * The Times *A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends * Independent on Sunday *

About The Author

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters’ Club, Number 11 and Middle England, which won the Costa Novel of the Year Award and the Prix du Livre Europeen. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children’s book.

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