The Rotters' Club

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Author: Jonathan CoeModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 26 June 2014 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 416 pages193 x 131 x 27mm | 294gWINN ER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZEBirmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, first love, corrosive class warfare, detention, IRA bombings.Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in school.Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, The Rotters' Club is perfect for readers of Nick Hornby and William Boyd - or anyone who ever experience adolescence the hard way!'One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels . . . a masterpiece' Daily Telegraph'Very funny . . . Coe had achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for' The Times'A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends' Independent on SundayJonathan Coe's latest novel The Proof of My Innocence is available now! Show more