The Rotters' Club
by:
Jonathan Coe (author)
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer...
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Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in school. As the world appears to self-destruct around them, they hold together to navigate the choppy waters of a decidedly ambiguous decade.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375713125 (0375713123)
ASIN: 375713123
Publish date: February 4th 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 415
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Modern
Series: Rotters' Club (#1)
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This portrayal of England in the 1970 in a working-class blue collar town is both fascinating and somewhat foreign. We follow the teenage years of a group of friends Benjamin the writer, Philip the historian, Doug the leader, Harding, the joker. Coe succeeds in making us care about the love triangle...
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