Jonathan Coe's new 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.
- ISBN10 014029466X
- ISBN13 9780140294668
- Publish Date 19 March 2002 (first published 22 February 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English