Number 11 - Softcover

Coe, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241967015 ISBN 13: 9780241967010

Publisher: Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.


It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.

It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.

It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all.

It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street.

It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best ­- showing us how we live now.

'Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times' Observer

About this title

Review:

Coe is back doing what he does best. Number 11 is a baroquely plotted, densely allusive, heart-on-his-sleeve, state-of-the-nation satire, an angry and exuberant book....Coe is not just back, but back on top form (Sunday Times)

You can't stop reading....I was haunted for days (The Independent)

Coe's prose is always a delight...hugely enjoyable (Daily Mail)

Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the most entertaining chroniclers of our times. . . He has an enviable lightness of touch and is brilliant at portraying the lunacy of our time, when bankers need iceberg houses and their neighbours need food banks. He is often satirical, always compassionate. (Tatler)

He brings us the usual high quotient of jokes, emotional engagement with the characters and commitment to old-school storytelling, complete with narrative twists and thrilling set pieces (The Daily Telegraph)

An incredibly Dickensian novel...it articulates all kinds of themes that will make the reader feel very angry...I enjoyed it hugely and read it pretty much in a single sitting. Whenever there was an interruption I felt really angry and you can't really ask more from a novel than that...Really satisfying (Tom Holland, BBC Radio 4)

Jonathan Coe rips into modern celebrity culture and the decadent lives of the super-rich in hs latest satire (Good Housekeeping)

A restlessness would overtake me when I was separated from the book (Kit Davis, BBC Radio 4)

No modern novelist is better at charting the precariousness of middle-class life (The Observer)

Coe creeps up stealthily, delivering a book bursting with narrative coups and delicious ironies. Presenting a picture of an ailing country close to collapse, despite the apparent health suggested by its millionaires' mansions and its confidently callous politicians, the book scares rather than laughs us into calling for reform (Literary Review)

About the Author:

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241967015
• ISBN 13: 9780241967010
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368