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The Rotters' Club - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jonathan Coe (Paperback)

The Rotters' Club - (Vintage Contemporaries) by  Jonathan Coe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Set against the turbulent British '70s--a decade of industrial strikes, IRA bombings and rising nationalist racism--this marvelous tale combines comedy and tragedy in a sprawling coming-of-age chronicle of four friends. A Book Sense 76 Pick.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Reflective and compelling, satirical and tender, wildly imaginative and painstakingly realistic." -Chris Lehmann, <i> The Washington Post Book World <p/></i>"The gritty, cross-pond equivalent to <b>Look Homeward, Angel</b>. . . . The pangs of embarrassment, the anguish of uncertainty, the awkwardness of success [are] vividly present here." - Mike Francis, <i> The Oregonian <p/></i>"Funny and astute . . . The strength of <b>The Rotters' Club</b> lies in its comic humanity." - Stephen Amidon, <i>The Atlantic Monthly<br></i><br>"Please, God . . . if there's a next life, let me write as well as Jonathan Coe. <b>The Rotters' Club</b> 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 <b>Kitchen Confidential</b> and <b>A Cook's Tour</b><i> <p/></i>"Its tinder-dry combustion of comic, indignant and elegiac suggests an Evelyn Waugh of the left." -Richard Eder, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><i><br></i>"A thrillingly traitorous work. It hums along for a hundred pages of wise comedy about teenage love's mortifications, then cold cocks us with an honest surprise as cruel as it is earned." -David Kipen, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"Jonathan Coe is a mesmerizing writer. . . . <b>The Rotters' Club</b> is a wonderfully gripping novel, by turns funny, heartbreaking and terrifying." -<i>The Seattle Times<br></i><br>"The novel's many intricate parts manage to mesh and turn with the startling harmony you find in Robert Altman's movies." -Todd Pruzan, <i>The Village Voice<br></i><br>"If there's a contemporary novelist who combines sharp and sometimes savage social commentary with the classic, full-blooded pleasures novels are supposed to give readers as well as Jonathan Coe does, I must have missed him." -Charles Taylor, Salon.com <p/>and from the UK . . . <p/>"A must-read for anyone who cares about contemporary literature." -Katie Owen, <i>The Telegraph <p/></i>"Filled with characters whose destinies we care about, whose welfare moves us. This is the simplest but highest calling of literature." -William Sutcliffe, <i>The Independent on Sunday</i> <p/>"As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read." -Peter Bradshaw, <i>The Guardian<br></i><br>"As a study of adolescence, it is hard to beat. The aching naivety and intensity of the main characters made me think of Salinger." -John de Falbe, <i>The Spectator</i> <p/>"Coe handles his complex approach to a complex era effortlessly, and the end product is a compulsive and gripping read." -Paul Connolly, <i>The Times</i> <p/>"At once uproariously entertaining and deadly serious-a comedy of manners and mores, but also a conscientious and politically charged reminder of an age quite easily forgotten, yet not far removed from our own." -Henry Hitchings, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> <p/>"Like all of Coe's novels, <b>The Rotters' Club</b> is brilliant, funny, apposite, informed and unflaggingly truth-seeking." -Rachel Cusk, <i>The Evening Standard <p/></i>"Superior entertainment. The pages seem to turn themselves." -Hugo Barnacle, <i>The New Statesman</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jonathan Coe has received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for <b>The Rotters' Club</b>, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the most original comic writing. He lives in London.

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