by Jonathan Coe · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141033266
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«The Rotters' Club» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jonathan Coe, published by Penguin in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Set in 1970s England, the novel follows a group of friends who take over the direction of their school magazine amid strikes, bombings, and racial tensions. Between humour and social critique, it portrays the end of Old Labour and adolescent bewilderment, where the trivial and the historical coexist.
It is the first novel in the «Rotters' Club» series; it was originally published in 2001.
It will appeal to readers of contemporary fiction and coming-of-age stories, with humour and a historical and political backdrop.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
