Title: The Rotters' Club
First published: July 2003
Description: Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.
Subjects: Fiction, Teenage boys, Male friendship, Literature, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Friendship, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Nineteen seventies, Student newspapers and periodicals, School children, Fiction, general, Fiction, satire, Années 1970
Places: Birmingham (England), Angleterre (Grande-Bretagne)
People: Marina Groslerner (1967-)