Book description
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed 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 onto 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. Jonathan Coe was
born in Birmingham in 1961. His most recent novel is
The Rain Before It Falls
. He is also the author of The Accidental Woman
, A Touch of Love
, The Dwarves of Death
, What a Carve Up!
, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The House of Sleep
, which won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger, The Rotter's Club
, winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize and The Closed Circle
He has also published a biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson, which
won the Orwell prize in 2005. He lives in London with his wife and two
children.
