The Closed Circle - Softcover

Coe, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141020245 ISBN 13: 9780141020242

Publisher: Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

The Closed Circle is Jonathan Coe's hilarious sequel to The Rotters' Club

It's the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up. Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair's Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government (and by extension Benjamin's MP brother Paul) to blame? Or are the 'rotters' themselves - only passingly faithful to their dreams - really at fault?

The Closed Circle - sequel to The Rotters' Club - depicts a group of former school friends as older, wiser and disillusioned in Blair's Britain at the turn of the millennium. It proves that the present can never truly be disentangled from the past.

'Terrific. An incisive portrait of Britain at the turn of the century' Spectator

'Coe's finest achievement since What a Carve up!' Time Out

'Popular fiction at its best' Daily Mail

Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting political satire, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, The Dwarves of Death, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), A Touch of Love, What a Carve Up! (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and The Rain Before it Falls, are all available in Penguin paperback.

About this title

Review:

Praise for The Closed Circle:

'Spectacular. Coe's finest achievement since What a Carve Up!' Time Out

Wonderful, hilarious ... so appealing that the last cruel thing about it is the ending' Daily Telegraph

'Superbly funny, extremely readable, entertaining ... keeps the pages turning' Guardian

'As funny as anything Coe has written' The Times Literary Supplement

'Richly drawn. Coe has succeeded in accomplishing that rare feat: a pair of novels that combine the addictive quality of the best soap operas with a basic cultural integrity' Independent on Sunday

About the Author:

Jonathan Coe is the author of eleven novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep and The Rotters' Club. His most recent novel is Number 11.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141020245
• ISBN 13: 9780141020242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448