Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Rotters' Club is a 2001 novel by British author Jonathan Coe. [1] [2] It is set in Birmingham during the 1970s, and inspired by the author's experiences at King Edward's School, Birmingham. The title is taken from the album The Rotters' Club by experimental rock band Hatfield and the North. [3] The book was followed by two sequels.
(1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. [6] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.
Jonathan Coe FRSL (/ k oʊ /; born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire . [ 1 ]
Ron McFarland has written a 2-character comic “micro-opera” The Audition of Molly Bloom (1985), which culminates with the soliloquy. [5] Kate Bush song "The Sensual World" echos Molly Bloom's soliloquy. Bush's 2011 album Director's Cut includes a newer version of the track ("Flower of the Mountain") with new vocals that use the original ...
The Rain Before It Falls is a lyrical novel written by British author Jonathan Coe. It describes the history of three generations of women directly or indirectly affected by events in post-war London and rural Shropshire. The novel contrasts with Coe's previous works in that it is almost apolitical, examining both the welcome and the ...
The Closed Circle is a 2004 novel by British author Jonathan Coe, and is the sequel to his 2001 novel The Rotters' Club.We re-encounter the main characters from The Rotters' Club - Benjamin Trotter, Doug Anderton and Philip Chase, and also become better-acquainted with some of the more minor characters, most notably Paul Trotter, Benjamin's younger brother, and Claire Newman, an old school ...
First edition. Mr Wilder and Me is a novel by Jonathan Coe, published in the UK by Viking Books on 5 November 2020. It is a historical novel set in the late 1970s, and tells the story of Hollywood director Billy Wilder's struggles to write, finance and shoot his penultimate film Fedora, as observed through the eyes of a young Greek interpreter.
Writing in The Observer the critic Jeremy Paxman wrote that Coe had "noticed something interesting about modern Britain, and fashioned an engaging parable from it". [ 3 ] The Very Private Life of Mister Sim , a French film based on the novel, directed by Michel Leclerc and produced by Delante Films and Karé Productions, was released on 16 ...