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The Rotters' Club: 'One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels' Daily Telegraph
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Rotters' Club: 'One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels' Daily Telegraph
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jonathan Coe
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:416 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780241967768
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.92 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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| Imprint |
Penguin Books Ltd
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| Publication Date |
26 June 2014 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby 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 world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager- a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.
Author Biography
Jonathan Coe was born a few miles from Bournville in 1961. The author of political satires such as What a Carve Up! and Number 11, and family sagas such as The Rotters' Club and The Rain Before It Falls, his novels have won prizes at home and abroad, including Costa Novel of the Year and the Prix du Livre Europeen (both for Middle England).
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