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	The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe: Reviews
		Coe's narrative voice is pleasingly intimate, as though he were inviting his readers into the "closed circle" referenced in the tide, urging them to lean close and then closer.
		Coe is a witty writer with a talent for social satire that singes characters without burning away their humanity.
		Coe's knack for capturing an epoch is still strong, but, in contrast to the distant decade of the earlier book, his evocation of turn-of-the-millennium Britain seems very much yesterday's news.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/coejonathan/closedcircle (759 words)

	3am Literature:
		As Coe documents only too well, the era was that of worsening industrial and social unrest -- Johnson's role being to capture this through his own propaganda films against the Heath government and Christie Malry's own appropriation of the Angry Brigade's tactics in his novel of the same name.
		As Coe reveals, Johnson's almost inchoate yet consistent political beliefs resembled something akin to broad sympathy towards an idealised notion of a Labour left intelligentsia, though he later argued that it, as per the Labour Government of Harold Wilson, had lost its way and was a spent force.
		Where Coe caps off the justice served is in the structure of the book, which avoids the more pedestrian pitfalls of the biographer that quite often render what should be a lively account into thoroughly dull reading.
	www.3ammagazine.com /litarchives/2005/jul/fuck_all_this_lying.shtml (1077 words)

	Books \| A bit of a rotter
		Jonathan Coe lives here because he was priced out of Chelsea and eased westwards before his novels took off and put him into the VAT-registered income bracket, which is a rare distinction for any writer.
		Coe is courteous, painstakingly truthful, co-operative and generous, but he is not a man to demean himself by courting a cheap laugh.
		Coe is already working on a sequel to The Rotters' Club, which will leap forward to the 90s, so putting paid to the 20th century - or rather his treatment of the last three decades of it.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4141351-103425,00.html (3813 words)

	A conversation with Jonathan Coe - Salon
		Coe's fourth novel, the 1994 "What a Carve Up!" (published in the U.S. as "The Winshaw Legacy"), was a big, Dickensian tale of a young writer who has withdrawn into a benumbed, hermetic existence, hired to write the biography of a family of British monsters who represent the ethic of the Thatcher years.
		In Coe's new novel, "The Rotters' Club" (the first half of which will essentially be one large novel -- he is currently writing the second half, "The Closed Circle"), the author turns to the '70s, particularly the political and social morass that paralyzed Britain and also gave birth to punk.
		Following a group of teenage students, Coe's contemporaries, the novel is both a vivid social portrait and a remembrance of his own adolescent discoveries (though not a nostalgic one).
	dir.salon.com /story/people/conv/2002/03/12/jonathan_coe/index.html (859 words)

	The Rotters' Club - Jonathan Coe
		Coe, born in 1961, is about the same age as the four boys around whom most of the narrative revolves.
		Coe is very conscious of what happened after the period that dominates his novel -- just as he knows his readers are well-aware of it too, and come to the novel with that knowledge and experience --, and he uses this very well
		Coe, too, wonders about that, and his different artful approaches are both different ways of trying to make narrative meaningful as well as constant reminders to the reader that it is mere invention and must be considered as such.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/coej/rotters.htm (2600 words)

	Jonathan Coe
		Novelist Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961.
		Jonathan Coe is also the author of two biographies of film actors, Humphrey Bogart and James Stewart.
		Jonathan Coe's six novels to date have measured a clear progression from experiment to accomplishment; and along this process, Coe has pulled off the remarkable feat of developing a confidence and a distinctive style without ever losing the playfulness and lively versatility so much in evidence in his early work.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth22 (1235 words)

	Rotters' Club, the - Jonathan Coe - Review - Sex, coming of age and astute politics
		It is to this backdrop of changing times and uncertainty that Jonathan Coe has written The Rotters' Club charting the coming of age of a group of young teenage adolescents.
		Coe is another new author for my palate to sample and a number of his previous novels have met with great critical acclaim, including this The Rotters' Club - which collected the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse prize - not a well-known award, but an award nonetheless.
		Coe's teenage characters are beautifully drawn; the confusion, the ambition, the naivety and the trepidation of youth are all drawn out in subtle ways, leaving the reader with a real affection and possibly identification with the characters.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/rotters-club-the-jonathan-coe/371119 (1124 words)

	Amazon.de: The Rotters' Club: English Books: Jonathan Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Coe amusingly and sympathetically articulates the desperate nature of teenage life, demonstrating a sure command of his protagonists' vernacular.
		As he demonstrated in his well-received novel about the Thatcher years, The Winshaw Legacy, Coe is immensely clever, but that cleverness is almost misplaced here: universal as it may be, adolescent angst doesn't really compare to the problems of massive social change.
	www.amazon.de /Rotters-Club-Jonathan-Coe/dp/0375413839 (528 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Jonathan Coe
		Jonathan Coe is one of those rare novelists who succeed in combining formal innovation, biting social commentary, playful humour, and engaging plots and characters.
		Jonathan Coe was born on August 19, 1961, in a suburb of Birmingham, England.
		Coe has been writing fiction since he was a child; at the age of eight, while on a family holiday in Wales, Coe wrote a long, mock-Victorian detective story entitled “The Castle of Mystery”, and by the age of fifteen he had completed his first novel and received his first rejection slip.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5843 (621 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Rotters' Club: Livres en anglais: Jonathan Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Coe amusingly and sympathetically articulates the desperate nature of teenage life, demonstrating a sure command of his protagonists' vernacular.
		As he demonstrated in his well-received novel about the Thatcher years, The Winshaw Legacy, Coe is immensely clever, but that cleverness is almost misplaced here: universal as it may be, adolescent angst doesn't really compare to the problems of massive social change.
		Jonathan Coe est identique à lui-même, nous faisant passer du rire aux grincements de dents.
	www.amazon.fr /Rotters-Club-Jonathan-Coe/dp/0375713123 (804 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Closed Circle: Books: Jonathan Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Coe followed this success with The House of Sleep (1997) and The Rotters’ Club (2002), a complex narrative about a group of school friends in Manchester in the 1970s.
		In particular, Coe tends to be strident in his criticism of Britain’s involvement in the war in Iraq, connecting it to incidents of terrorism and predicting further retaliation: “It’s only a matter of time before something worse happens.
		The fact that Coe has chosen to allow a large gap between the two installments of his story (leaving out marriages, divorces, births, postsecondary education and the establishment of careers) suggests that Coe is less interested in the individual dramas of his characters than in the life of their nation.
	www.amazon.ca /Closed-Circle-Jonathan-Coe/dp/0375414150 (1213 words)

	Powell's Books - The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
		"Coe's first novel since his prize-winning The Winshaw Legacy is likewise witty and intelligent....The story has some surprising twists, and Coe mostly manages to avoid clichd characters, although his mad doctor is almost over the top.
		Jonathan Coe has received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for The Rotters' Club, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the most original comic writing.
		Jonathan Coe is a marvel of strangeness and light.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0375700889 (761 words)

	BookClubs.ca \| Books \| The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
		The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.
		"Jonathan Coe may be the most exciting novelist you've never heard of.
		Jonathan Coe’s awards include the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for The Rotters’ Club, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375713958 (236 words)

	village voice > books > The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe by Todd Pruzan
		Coe obliges us to process tremendous subplots—concerning, say, the British Leyland auto plant that employs most of the teens' fathers, ensnared by labor-management disputes as well as the disappearance of an employee (the older sister of the protagonist's schoolmate) who's been sleeping with a senior steward (the father of the protagonist's best friend).
		Indeed, Coe indicates that Doug, and not Ben, is the one destined for prominence.
		One of Jonathan Coe's real strengths is his ear for characters' self-expression—in breathless journal entries, petulant school-play reviews, and flatulent letters to the editor.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0208/pruzan.php (1020 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rotters' Club: Books: Jonathan Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(Coe reassures the reader at the end that there's going to be a sequel) It's a brave author who tackles racism, politics, history, changing senses of what is acceptable, and many other issues; Coe does this, and more.
		Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club is a very amusing, engaging story of four teenage boys and their families and friends in Birmingham, England in the 1970s.
		Coe is better than most at telling a story, particularly a story set in a particular moment in history not long enough ago to have been memorialized as part of humanity's collective experience, but too long ago to stir immediate feelings of allegiance and identification--in this case, the politically fraught Birmingham of the 1970s.
	www.amazon.com /Rotters-Club-Jonathan-Coe/dp/0375713123 (2460 words)

	Longest Sentence in Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club, published in 2001, contains a sentence with 13,955 words.
		It is this novel that Coe has said inspired his 13,955 word sentence.
		Atlantic Monthly's interview with Jonathan Coe, in which he mentions he was inspired by "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age," by Bohumil Hrabal.
	www.gavroche.org /vhugo/sentence.shtml (378 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Rotters' Club" By Jonathan Coe
		Jonathan Coe's novel "The Rotters' Club" begins in a revolving restaurant overlooking Berlin in 2003, but it doesn't stay there long.
		And if this is true for the Trotters and the others in their world, Coe seems to be saying, it is no less true for the whole of British society, which is coming of age in fits and starts right alongside them.
		But Coe may have his reasons for doing so: A sequel to the novel, picking up the action in the late 1990s, he notes in the book's closing pages, is forthcoming.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2002/02/21/coe/index.html (791 words)

	Jonathan Coe : 9th & 13th - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Coe, himself something of a thwarted musician, has spoken of how he aspires to find a new way of integrating music and the spoken word.
		Added to this, Coe is a much better writer than he is a reader of his own work.
		The latter, one of Philippe's most remarkable songs, is a substantial improvement on the original and, in truth, represents the one cogent reason to seek out 9th & 13th.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2959461,00.html (404 words)

	Jonathan Coe at the Complete Review
		"Jonathan Coe is the late Kingsley Amis' most talented successor in employing the refreshment of dismay to denounce the state of Britain and beyond.
		But Coe mixes the humour (even -- or perhaps especially -- at its absurdest) with the serious: his works are not escapist amusement, but rather a reflection of our odd world.
		The still very young Coe continues to mature with each of his novels, and looks to be a writer of exceptional promise.
	www.complete-review.com /authors/coejo.htm (585 words)

	Powell's Books - The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
		"Coe's first novel since his prize-winning The Winshaw Legacy is likewise witty and intelligent....The story has some surprising twists, and Coe mostly manages to avoid clichd characters, although his mad doctor is almost over the top.
		Jonathan Coe has received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, the Prix Médicis Etranger, and, for The Rotters' Club, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the most original comic writing.
		Jonathan Coe is a marvel of strangeness and light.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=9780375700880&atch=h&atchi=121725593 (764 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Rotters' Club: Books: Jonathan Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jonathan Coe's new novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension.
		I agree that the book tends to meander and grow tangential, but knowing Coe's work and that fact that this is a "volume one" work that is to be continued, I believe that all will be pulled together and relevance will be revealed as we moved forwards.
		I too,like Coe, went to school in Birmingham and subsequently away to university (albeit in the 50-60s).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Rotters-Club-Jonathan-Coe/dp/014029466X (1410 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Closed Circle: Livres en anglais: Jonathan Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His brother, Paul, is an ambitious member of Parliament in "Blair's Brave New Britain." Doug Anderton and Philip Chase became journalists, and the first book's other characters all reappear in some way or another (along with flashbacks to many of their teenage escapades).
		Coe cleverly works real events into the plot—London's Millennium Eve, the possible shutdown of a British auto manufacturer, the war in Iraq.
		In this sequel to "The Rotters' Club," Paul Trotter wonders, "What sort of country are we living in?" One much changed, Coe is at constant pains to point out, in the twenty-six years since the story began, in nineteen-seventies Birmingham.
	www.amazon.fr /Closed-Circle-Jonathan-Coe/dp/0375713956 (649 words)

	Amazon.com: The House of Sleep: Books: Jonathan Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Balancing self-knowing references to semiotics and psychoanalysis with elegant plot symmetries, Coe proves himself as adept an architect of sparkling, highly caffeinated fictional conceits as he is a satirist of the ambiguities of identity and the afflictions of the sleep-deprived.
		Jonathan Coe's books are usually vividly witty, biting and occasionally outright scathing, with characters that are usually either very human or distant and weird.
		Coe falls back on cliches unworthy of his writing, like the letter-tucked-in-a-book, something more worthy of shlockmaster Nicholas Sparks rather than a writer of Coe's caliber.
	www.amazon.com /House-Sleep-Jonathan-Coe/dp/0375700889 (1929 words)

	Jonathan Coe - AOL Music
		Jonathan Coe at www.contemporarywriters.com - Novelist Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961.
		Jonathan Coe, born 19th August 1961 in Birmingham, is a British novelist and writer.
		Watch or listen to Jonathan Coe music videos, songs, live performances, concerts and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist.adp?artist_id=667378 (112 words)

	Jonathan Coe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonathan Coe, born August 19, 1961 in Birmingham, is an English novelist and writer.
		Online discussion about Jonathan Coe and B.S. Johnson
		"Letter from England: A Blairite Novel" Review of Coe's The Closed Circle in n+1 magazine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Coe (288 words)

	Powell's Books - The Closed Circle: A Novel by Jonathan Coe
		The characters of The Rotters' Club — Jonathan Coe's nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in the 1970s — have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in a story that is very much of the moment, charged with such issues as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.
		With echoes of Anthony Trollope and Anthony Powell, this wonderful, compulsively readable sequel explores the adults those young people became — it opens in 1999 and closes in 2003 — and paints a satirical but moving portrait of life at the turn of the century.
		Coe cleverly works real events into the plot — London's Millennium Eve, the possible shutdown of a British auto manufacturer, the war in Iraq.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0375414150&atch=h (832 words)

	BBC - Drama - Backstage - Novelist Jonathan Coe
		In 1999 his novel The Dwarves of Death was adapted into the low-budget movie Five Seconds to Spare, starring Max Beesley.
		In addition to six novels, Jonathan has written a number of non-fiction books, including biographies of Humphrey Bogart and James Stewart.
		Jonathan lifts the lid on the inspiration for the novel that's been made into a BBC drama:
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/therottersclub/writer.shtml (319 words)

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