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The Closed Circle

Jonathan Coe

The characters of The Rotters' Club-Jonathan Coe's beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s-have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Jun 6th, 2006
  • Pages: 384
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.24in - 0.84in - 0.59lb
  • EAN: 9780375713958
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

Jonathan Coe's awards include the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for The Rotters' Club, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing. He lives in London with his wife and their two daughters.

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Praise for this book

"Wonderfully witty and compulsively readable. . . . Often laugh-out-loud funny-but Coe has also fashioned a movingly human novel. . . .It's the best novel to date from this talented author." -San Francisco Chronicle

"Jonathan Coe may be the most exciting novelist you've never heard of. . . . Coe has every tool a writer can possess, as though he were a super-novelist assembled from the best parts of others." -People

"With a nineteenth-century novelist's discursiveness and reach, Coe gives us a meditation on the consequences of terrorism, an examination of the post-9/11 political zeitgeist, a satire of everything from book reviewers to modern parenting." -The Atlantic Monthly

"One of the glories of Coe's writing is a magically buoyant narrative technique that makes you feel as though you have been fostering a comfortable intimacy with all his characters since they, and you, were young." -The Daily Telegraph (London)

"Immensely satisfying. . . . Coe is a witty writer with a talent for social satire that singes characters without burning away their humanity." -The Washington Post Book World