· About the Author. Jonathan Coe has received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for The Rotters’ Club, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the most original comic writing. He lives in www.doorway.ru: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. · Jonathan Coe on The Rotters’ Club: ‘My diary provided endless material, but I didn’t like the person I was’. The author on mixing semi-fact with fiction – and the school rule about. Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in His novels include What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, The Rain Before It Falls and Number He has won many literary prizes at home and abroad, and his biography of the writer BS Johnson, Like A Cited by: 6.
Born in in what is now the West Midlands, since his debut The Accidental Woman in Jonathan Coe has carved out a niche as one of Britain's finest exponents of satiric cultural observation. Novels such as What a Carve Up!, The Rotter's Club and Number 11 create a wincingly-accurate portrait of Britain through the seventies and beyond, complete with all its petty class warfare and. Jonathan Coe's comic novels have always tended towards a class-conscious blend of satire, humour and heart, and nowhere is this better exhibited than in The Rotters' Club, a story of bell-bottomed blood brothers navigating puberty and experiencing the world through the blinkered prism of teenage peepers. The Rotters' Club|Jonathan Coe, The memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the reign of Louis XIV and the regency|Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, The Dark Cave Between My Ribs|Loren Kleinman, The Small Library Manager's Handbook (Medical Library Association Books Series)|Alice Graves.
Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe in an absolute delight, a brilliant book not only for those who can actually remember those years (in Britain or elsewhere, such as behind the iron curtain which is my case), but for everyone who likes English humour, irony, lovely language. I am looking forward to reading the follow up. About the Author. Jonathan Coe has received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for The Rotters’ Club, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the most original comic writing. He lives in London. The Rotters' Club. Jonathan Coe. Viking £, pp Buy it at a discount at BOL. Jonathan Coe a considerable novelist and The Rotters' Club is an aberration, an aberration with a sequel.
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