The Rotters’ Club (Book #1)
Jonathan Coe°°°
The bestselling comic novel, now a Penguin Essential
Unforgettably funny & painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter & his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys & agonies of growing up.
Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, & divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks.
Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic & riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance & furtive sex, The Rotters’ Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.
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Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His novels include Rotters, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, & What a Carve Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize & the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. The House of Sleep won the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award for 1997.