The Rotters' Club - Penguin Essentials
The Rotters' Club - Penguin Essentials
paperback
Published:
6 June, 2019
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Description
'Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life . . .'
Coming of age in 1970s' Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to discover the agonies and ecstasies of growing up. Whether it is first love or last rites, IRA bombs or industrial strife, prog versus punk rock, expectations of bad poetry or an unexpected life-changing experience involving lost swimming trunks, The Rotters' Club is a heartfelt and hilarious portrait of a particular time and place featuring characters recognisable the world over . . .
'Very funny, a compulsive and gripping read' The Times
'Hugely entertaining' The Observer
'A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends' Independent on Sunday
Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence is available now!
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241986479 |
| ISBN10 | 0241986478 |
| Number Of Pages | 416 |
| Item Weight | 227 g |
| Product Dimensions | 110 x 180 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Wonderful storytelling -- Paul Merton
A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends * Independent on Sunday *
Very funny... a compulsive and gripping read. Coe has achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for * The Times *
One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction ... a masterpiece * Daily Telegraph *
Very funny ... a compulsive and gripping read. Coe has achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for * The Times *
A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends * Independent on Sunday *
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Author's Bio
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.