The Rotters' Club
About this book
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.
Subjects
- années 1970
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, satire
- friendship, fiction
- large type books
- literature
- male friendship
- new york times reviewed
- nineteen seventies
- school children
- student newspapers and periodicals
- teenage boys