Description
The first in The Rotters' Club series, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter is a hilarious, heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up.
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, first love, corrosive class warfare, detention, IRA bombings.
There are four: 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, packed with thwarted romance, class struggles and teenage angst, The Rotters' Club is perfect for readers of Nick Hornby and William Boyd — or anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way!
Endorsements
Winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize
'One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction... a masterpiece' — Daily Telegraph
'Very funny... a compulsive and gripping read. Coe had achieved that rare 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