# The Rotters' Club

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- Book: [The Rotters' Club](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/the-rotters-club) ([The Rotters' Club.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe/the-rotters-club.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Coe](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-coe)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-004-8
- Published: 2008-05-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.