The Rotters' Club View By Jonathan Coe
| Title | : | The Rotters' Club |
| Author | : | Jonathan Coe |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 406 pages |
| ISBN | : | 014029466X |
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 pa 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 book suffers in its programmatic attempts to make the four boys and their families symbolize, or represent, something important to do with British life Doug, for instance, symbolizes Industrial Decline his dad is a shop steward at the doomed British Leyland Longbridge plant Sean symbolizes Sexual Liberation at least he s the one who seems most likely to get his rocks off And young Ben Trotter would appear to represent A Young Jonathan Coe But if this aspect of the novel seems contrived, then 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 Sean Thomas, .co.uk
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Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information Jonathan Coe, born 19 August 1961 in Birmingham, is a British novelist and writer His work usually has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire For example, What a Carve Up rew Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information Jonathan Coe, born 19 August 1961 in Birmingham, is a British novelist and writer His work usually has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire For example, What a Carve Up reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name, in the light of the carve up of the UK s resources which some felt was carried out by Margaret Thatcher s right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s Coe studied at King Edward s School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge, before teaching at the University of Warwick where he completed a PhD in English Literature In July 2006 he was given an honorary degree by The University of Birmingham Retrieved 10 55, February 2, 2009 from 
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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 be
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