The Rotters' Club
‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph
$34.86
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2014
Summary
A comic, nostalgic look at a pivotal time in British politics through the lens of a group of schoolboys coming to their own as editors of their school magazine, from one of our greatest British writers.
Jonathan Coe’s widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241967768 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241967767 |
| Author: | Jonathan Coe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
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, richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction … a masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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