Synopsis
In The Closed Circle, sequel to his Everyman Wodehouse prize-winning coming-of- age novel The Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe depicts a group of former school friends as older, wiser and disillusioned in Blair’s Britain at the turn of the millennium . . .
It’s the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up. Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids – and self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair’s Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government(and by extension Benjamin’s MP brother Paul) to blame? Or are the ‘rotters’ themselves – only passingly faithful to their dreams – really at fault?
The Closed Circle – sequel to The Rotters’ Club – takes up the story twenty years on, and proves that the present can never truly be disentangled from the past.
‘Terrific. An incisive portrait of Britain at the turn of the century’ Spectator
‘Coe’s finest achievement since What a Carve up!’ Time Out
‘Popular fiction at its best’ Daily Mail
Jonathan Coe’s novels are filled with biting political satire, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, The Dwarves of Death, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), A Touch of Love, What a Carve Up! (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and The Rain Before it Falls, are all available in Penguin paperback.
» Read the first pages of The Closed Circle by downloading the Penguin Taster here
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780141033273
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 448
Published : 19 May 2008
Publisher : Penguin
Other formats for The Closed Circle:
» Hardback : £17.99
» Downloadable Audio: Audiobook : £12.98
» ePub eBook: eBook : £7.00
The Closed Circle
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