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The closed circle

The closed circle

by Jonathan Coe, Jeff Rawle

2004FictionWorld politicsMale friendshipBrothersAdultery
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Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable. Darkly comic, hugely engaging, and compulsively readable, it is the much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Coe's bestselling novel The Rotters' Club, and reintroduces us to the characters first encountered in that book. But whereas The Rotters' Club was a novel of innocence, The Closed Circle is its opposite: a novel of experience.

Themes & subjects

FictionWorld politicsMale friendshipBrothersAdulteryLegislators
First published 2004

Setting

Birmingham (England)London (England)1995-2005

About the author

Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe

1961-08-19

Authors

Jonathan Coe, Jeff Rawle

First published

2004

Pages

432

Read time

≈ 11h

Editions

18

Languages

English, Spanish, French

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

ISBN

9788433974624

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