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The Rotters' Club (2003)

The Rotters' Club (2003)

Children Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Friendship Fiction Coming of Age

Jonathan Coe

Year: 2003
Authors: Jonathan Coe
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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.