Geoff Breton
Ben Trotter
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- 2005 · Drama
Three teenage friends grow up in 1970s Britain watching their lives change as their world gets involved with IRA bombs, progressive and punk rock, girls and political strikes.
- Jonathan Coe
- 2001
Feb 22, 2001 · Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in ...
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The Rotters' Club: With Geoffrey Breton, Kevin Doyle, Rebecca Front, Alice O'Connell. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Coe about three friends growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s.
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- 2005-01-26
- Drama
- 172
Feb 4, 2003 · The Rotters’ Club offers a thick slice of seventies Birmingham–sharp, acerbic, and menacingly true; a sad, funny, thoroughly engaging look at compromise, complicity, and change in a decade many of us would choose to forget.” –Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour.
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- Jonathan Coe
- $16.95
- Vintage
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The Rotters’ Club is a remarkably adroit, incisive satire that manages to be humane and patiently understanding. There is no mistaking Coe’s leftist sympathies, yet he finds the vulnerable...
About The Rotters’ Club. Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings.
Feb 19, 2002 · This witty, sprawling and ambitious novel relates the coming-of-age stories of a group of adolescents in Birmingham, England, in the 1970s, with the era itself becoming a kind of character, encompassing trivialities like music as well as more serious issues: labor struggles, racism, terrorism.
