Coe
2006 Shortlist

The Closed Circle

ABOUT
THE BOOK

Set against the backdrop of the Millennium 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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Jonathan
Coe

Jonathan Coe has written ten novels: The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters’ Club, The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58. His biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, won the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.

Jonathan Coe has written ten novels: The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters’ Club, The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58. His biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, won the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
05/05/2005
Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin

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