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The Rotters' Club

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1970s Birmingham teens navigate surreal adolescence.

If you're intrigued by the quirks of youth intertwined with historical backdrops, "The Rotters' Club" might just be your cup of tea. Jonathan Coe has woven a narrative that not only captures the spirit of the 1970s but also delves into the complexities of growing up. It's particularly enticing for those who appreciate a mixture of humor, nostalgia, and social commentary wrapped up in a coming-of-age tale.

  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2001)
  • Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Rotters' Club

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ISBN: 9780141008721
Authors: Jonathan Coe
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2002-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Race, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.96
(rated by 14821 readers)

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At a time when people are looking back on the 1970s with nostalgia, Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club is a timely reminder of how ghastly that benighted decade was in Britain. Set in the "industrial" heartland of the West Midlands, it chronicles the growing pains of four Brummie schoolboys--Philip, Sean, Doug, and Benjamin--who must come to terms not only with the normal pangs of adolescence but with terrible knitwear, ludicrous pop music, nightmarish food, and insidious racism, all set against the awful, surreal, and tragicomic reality of a postimperial nation. The author's capricious, deft, wryly comedic, and touchingly empathetic style keeps things chugging along, as he knits together the troubles and tragedies of some fairly ordinary people living through fairly extraordinary years.
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1970s Birmingham teens navigate surreal adolescence.

If you're intrigued by the quirks of youth intertwined with historical backdrops, "The Rotters' Club" might just be your cup of tea. Jonathan Coe has woven a narrative that not only captures the spirit of the 1970s but also delves into the complexities of growing up. It's particularly enticing for those who appreciate a mixture of humor, nostalgia, and social commentary wrapped up in a coming-of-age tale.

  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2001)
  • Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.