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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.
Coe donated a story to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Coe's story was published in the Earth collection. [15] He is a trustee of the charity Cleared Ground Demining, and in spring 2007 visited Guinea-Bissau to write an article about their operations there. [16]
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 book examines identity and isolation, exploring the paradox of loneliness experienced at a time when technology makes connections with other humans easier than ever. Coe has said of his novel that Crowhurst's “story is retold as a parable of loneliness, exploring how post-1968 advances in technology might only have increased our sense of ...
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 ...
Number 11 is a novel by British writer Jonathan Coe, published in 2015. The book explores the changing social, economical and cultural landscape of the United Kingdom in the early 21st century. It is connected to Coe's previous novel What a Carve Up!, through shared themes and references to characters and events from the latter. [1]
Expo 58 is the tenth novel by Jonathan Coe. [1] First published by Viking in 2013, much of the novel's action centres around the British pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair . [ 2 ] The work was nominated to the 2015 longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award .