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Un romanzo, in cui l'io narrante - lo spaesato scrittore Michael Owen - si muove fra la propria storia di illusioni e trame adolescenziali, di ambizioni azzoppate e di amori frustrati, e quella di una famiglia di rapaci dominatori, gli Winshaw. Saldamente insediati ai posti di comando della finanza e della società inglesi, i componenti della famiglia Winshaw incarnano il delirio di potere che ha segnato gli anni di Margaret Thatcher, portando ...

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9 marzo 2009, Maxwell Sim, neo-agente di commercio, viene trovato nudo e in coma etilico nella sua auto in Scozia, durante una bufera di neve. Nel bagagliaio un cartone pieno di spazzolini ecologici. Cos'è accaduto? Com'è arrivato fin lì? Torniamo indietro di qualche mese: Maxwell ha quarantotto anni e sta attraversando un periodo difficile, sembra aver toccato il fondo. Appena divorziato, in cattivi rapporti con il padre, incapace di comunica...

Dit is een roman over de talloze verbindingen tussen de buitenwereld en je privéleven. Het gaat over de erfenis van oorlog en het einde van de onschuld. Het gaat over de strijd tussen komedie en politiek en hoe komedie lijkt te hebben gewonnen. Het gaat over 140 leestekens en hoe die ons voor schut kunnen zetten. Het gaat over het leven in een stad waar bankiers bioscopen in hun kelder laten bouwen en anderen in de rij staan bij voedselban...

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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.

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La biografia, la carriera, il mito di Humphrey Bogart attraverso la scrittura innamorata di un grande romanziere. Jonathan Coe ripercorre la carriera di Bogie dagli esordi teatrali ai grandi film della maturità e lascia emergere la formazione di quel personaggio cinico e sentimentale, capace di passare dalle atmosfere oblique del giallo alla commedia, dall'avventura al dramma romantico. Il Bogart di Coe, prima ancora che un interprete, è il po...

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Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club and Number 11. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

Rosamond lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl Imogen, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago. At the centre of the narrative is Imogen's grandmother, Beatrix, whose flight from her husband after the war in search of freedom and excitement left a damaging legacy. Damagin...

As a young girl, Rosamond is sent to Shropshire to escape the Blitz. Here, in the countryside, she forms a close bond with her older cousin, Beatrix, a young woman haunted by anger and resentment.Sixty years later, just before her death, Rosamond records her memories on cassettes, addressing them to a distant cousin—a near stranger-named Imogen. As Gill, her beloved niece, listens to these tapes, a heart—stopping family saga is revealed. In th...

¿Qué fue de cuarteto de amigos de Birmingham, de Trotter, Harding, Anderton y Chase, los jóvenes estudiantes del Kings William School y editores del periódico del instituto?

Coe ("The Rain Before It Falls") outdoes himself with this humane satire and modern-day picaresque, a gently comic and rollickingly entertaining story about personal attachments in the digital welter of instant communication.

De Rotters Club is een sprankelende roman over jongeren die in onzekerheid en volwassenen die in verwarring verkeren, een roman waarin het persoonlijke en het politieke elkaar op de onverwachtste momenten kruisen. Vier vrienden op een gerenommeerde school in Birmingham vormen de redactie van de schoolkrant in de turbulente jaren zeventig. Stakingen verlammen het land, de ira laat bommen ontploffen in de stad, en de jongens ontdekken de popmuz...

If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England--and is certainly the vilest. A tour de force of menace, malicious comedy, and torrential social bile, this book marks the American debut of an extraordinary writer.

Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Medicis in France Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful...