num_pages: 402
description: Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side. Prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks. Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic and riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance and furtive sex, The Rotters' Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.
language: English
title: The Rotters' Club
titlecomplete: The Rotters' Club (Rotters' Club, #1)
genres: Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 13937
places: England, West Midlands, England, Midlands, England, Birmingham, England
series: Rotters' Club
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: Penguin Books