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      The Closed Circle: ‘As funny as anything Coe has written’ The Times Literary Supplement

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      On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a 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 New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite ...

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      Product ID:9780241967720
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:The Closed Circle
      Subtitle:‘As funny as anything Coe has written’ The Times Literary Supplement
      Authors:Author: Jonathan Coe
      Page Count:448
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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      On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a 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 New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.

      Discover bestselling author Jonathan Coe''s hilarious sequel to The Rotters'' Club!

      It''s the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up.

      Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair''s Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government (and by extension Benjamin''s MP brother Paul) to blame? Or are the ''rotters'' themselves - only passingly faithful to their dreams - really at fault?

      The Closed Circle depicts a group of former school friends as older, wiser and disillusioned in Blair''s Britain at the turn of the millennium, proving that the present can never truly be disentangled from the past.

      THE STORY CONTINUES IN MIDDLE ENGLAND.
      __________

      ''Terrific. An incisive portrait of Britain at the turn of the century'' Spectator

      ''Coe''s finest achievement since What a Carve up!''
      Time Out

      ''Popular fiction at its best''
      Daily Mail

      Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe''s unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence, is available to order now!


      Imprint Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2014-06-26

      Additional information

      Weight314 g
      Dimensions197 × 131 × 28 mm