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The Rotters' Club is a 2001 novel by British author Jonathan Coe. [1] [2] It is set in Birmingham during the 1970s, and inspired by the author's experiences at King Edward's School, Birmingham. The title is taken from the album The Rotters' Club by experimental rock band Hatfield and the North. [3] . The book was followed by two sequels.
- Jonathan Coe
- 2001
Feb 22, 2001 · The Rotters' Club. Jonathan Coe. 3.96. 14,435 ratings916 reviews. Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings.
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Feb 4, 2003 · Hie latest novel, MIDDLE ENGLAND, published by Penguin in November 2018, reintroduces characters from The Rotters' Club and puts them against a background of real events in the UK before and after the Brexit referendum. The Rotters' Club [Coe, Jonathan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Rotters' Club.
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- Jonathan Coe
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- Vintage
Jonathan Coe’s novel centers on the lives of a group of classmates at a tony school in Birmingham, England, and though the attention shifts among the different teenagers, Ben Trotter is the...
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About The Rotters’ Club. 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 ...
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Buy The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph (The Rotters' Club, 1) 1 by Coe, Jonathan (ISBN: 9780241967768) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
- Jonathan Coe
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.