The Closed Circle
by:
Jonathan Coe (author)
The Closed Circle It's the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up. Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair's Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government (and by...
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The Closed Circle It's the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up. Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair's Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government (and by extension Benjamin's MP brother Paul) to blame? Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141033273 (0141033274)
Publish date: May 1st 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern,
English Literature
Series: Rotters' Club (#2)
This is the follow up to The Rotter's Club which I liked a lot. This one is more of a "where are they now?" The narrative starts in 1999 and ends where the first book ended. In between we follow and find out what happpened to the gang. Claire and her search for her gone long ago sister Miriam. Clair...
The Closed Circle is the follow-up of The Rotters Club characters' story twenty five years later on paper. In the real world three years are passed by between the release of the two books.Well, the question is: what's happened to Jonathan Coe in the meanwhile? Apparently he has lost his touch in jus...