The Closed Circle
‘As funny as anything Coe has written’ The Times Literary Supplement
$24.99
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2014
Summary
On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents’ TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.
Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country’s increasingly compromised role in America’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241967720 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241967724 |
| Author: | Jonathan Coe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Spectacular. Coe’s finest achievement since What a Carve Up! * Time Out *Wonderful, hilarious … so appealing that the last cruel thing about it is the ending * Daily Telegraph *Superbly funny, extremely readable, entertaining … keeps the pages turning * Guardian *As funny as anything Coe has written * The Times Literary Supplement *Richly drawn. Coe has succeeded in accomplishing that rare feat: a pair of novels that combine the addictive quality of the best soap operas with a basic cultural integrity * Independent on Sunday *
About The Author
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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