The Rotters’ Club

American Humorous Fiction

Author: Jonathan Coe

At a time when people are looking back on the 1970s with nostalgia, Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club is a timely reminder of how ghastly that benighted decade was in Britain. Set in the “industrial” heartland of the West Midlands, it chronicles the growing pains of four Brummie schoolboys–Philip, Sean, Doug, and Benjamin–who must come to terms not only with the normal pa….Read More

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