The Rotters' Club"
- Jonathan Coe's iconic 1970s coming-of-age novel Winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize " The Rotters' Club" follows Benjamin Trotter
- bestselling author Jonathan Coe's most iconic character
- through the hilarious & at times touching trials & tribulations of growing up in 1970s Britain. 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" will be enjoyed by readers of Nick Hornby & William Boyd & anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way. " One of those sweeping ambitious yet hugely readable moving & richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction...a masterpiece". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Very funny...a compulsive & gripping read. 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 Sunday"). Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting political satire moving & astute observations of life & hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles " The Closed Circle" (sequel to " The Rotters' Club") " The Accidental Woman" " The Dwarves of Death" " The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim" " The House of Sleep" (winner of the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger) "A Touch of Love" " What a Carve Up!" (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) & " The Rain Before it Falls" are all available in Penguin paperback."