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Coe, Jonathan House of Sleep
Penguin Putnam~trade May 28, 1998 0-14-025083-2 / 9780140250831 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean softcover: The House of Sleep is an intricate cat's cradle of a novel, full of both sl y satire and oblique meditations on the interstices of love, sleep, memory, and dreams. The setting is Ashdown, a wind-swept old house by the sea that once provided university housing and now is home to a clinic for sleep dis orders. During the early 1980s, a group of students meet here, united by li ttle other than a curious preoccupation with sleep. They include Sarah, a n arcoleptic who has trouble distinguishing her intensely vivid dreams from r eality; her first boyfriend, the fussy egomaniac Gregory, who gets his kick s from pressing his fingers on Sarah's closed eyes; Terry, a film buff who sleeps at least 14 hours a day, dreaming blissful dreams he can never quite remember; and the sensitive Robert, who loves Sarah enough to do anything at all in order to have her. By a series of startling coincidences, the fou r are drawn back to Ashdown 12 years later, setting into motion a plot so c arefully contrived it makes most thrillers look spare and impressionistic. Like a dream, The House of Sleep resonates with repeated images, phrases, e ven passages; here they serve as narrative glue for a complicated story tha t moves backward and forward in time and in and out of different points of view. The result is sometimes puzzling, always absorbing, and often very fu nny indeed. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition o f this title. From Publishers Weekly A gloomy Victorian manor called Ashdown, perched on a precipice overlooking the English coastline like the anthropomorphic castle of a 19th-century gothic romance
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Coe, Jonathan The "Rotters' Club"
Penguin Books Ltd December 2, 200 0-14-102049-0 / 9780141020495 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean copy: 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.
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Coe, Jonathan The Closed Circle
Vintage June 6, 2006 0-375-71395-6 / 9780375713958 Paperback Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Starred Review. The Rotters' Club (2002), Coe's witty novel of teenage schoolmates growing up in 1970s Birmingham, England, introduced an expansive cast of characters. 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. Claire Newman still mourns her sister, who vanished without a trace in The Rotters' Club. Benjamin Trotter still mourns his one true (teenage) love. 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. The theme, as in The Rotters' Club, concerns the conflicts and connections between individual decisions and societal events, but while Coe's political sensibility is readily apparent, this novel, with its incredibly well developed characters and its immensely engaging narrative, is no polemical tract. It's a compelling, dramatic and often funny depiction of the way we live now--both savage and heartfelt at the same time.
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Coe, Jonathan The Rotters' Club
Gardners Books March 19, 2002 0-14-029466-X / 9780140294668 Paperback Near Fine
Jonathan Coe's new novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young fri ends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin on to events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment i n 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.
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Coe, Jonathan What a Carve Up
Penguin Putnam~trade February 28, 19 0-14-023421-7 / 9780140234213 Paperback Very Good
Michael is a lonely writer, obsessed by a film featuring a mad knifeman. Wh en he is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws he realiz es that the family have cast a blight on his life and he decides to take hi s revenge by re-enacting his favourite film.
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