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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
- UK
- 2001
- English
Feb 22, 2001 · The Rotter's Club does many things pretty well: smooth read, engrossing enough plot, interesting enough characters, fine evocation of time period (1970s) and place (Birmingham), political/social commentary/observation on class and race in that place and time so pivotal, in retrospect, to those of us of that generation, in forming today's horror ...
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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
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Jul 24, 2021 · The Rotters’ Club was always intended to be the first in a six-volume sequence telling the story of Benjamin and his friends.
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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 ...
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. “Its tinder-dry combustion of comic ...
Feb 4, 2003 · The Rotters' Club was adapted for BBC television in 2005, starring Sarah Lancashire, Alice Eve and Kevin Doyle. In 2017 he published a novella for children, The Broken Mirror. 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 ...
