The Rotters' Club
by:
Jonathan Coe (author)
Jonathan Coe's new 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 on to events in the wider world. A zestful comedy...
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Jonathan Coe's new 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 on to 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140294668 (014029466X)
ASIN: 014029466X
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 406
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)
Great guy wishes groovy chick to write, into Tull, Pink Floyd, 17-28.’ ‘Wanted girl friend, any age, but 4 ft. 10 in. or under, all letters answered.’ “Guy, 18, cat lover, seeks London chick, into Sabbath. Only Freaks please.” “Freaky Guy (20) wants crazy chick (16+) for love. Into Quo and Zep...
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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