The Rotters' Club

Author: Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe

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  • : $27.99 AUD
  • : 9780241967768
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin (General UK)
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  • : 0.292
  • : August 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
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  • : August 2014
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  • : Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780241967768
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Description

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 description

Jonathan Coe has written ten novels: The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club, The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58. His biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, won the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.