<![CDATA[The Closed Circle]]>

false <![CDATA[The Closed Circle]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172090131m/137630.jpg 137630 17 The characters of <i>The Rotters’ Club</i>–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. 881063 6 6 2006 The Closed Circle total:306|5:39|4:134|3:102|2:28|1:3| 306 1096 400 34 5 1 false false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 05 21:30:46 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 23 12:22:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jun 04 12:48:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 13:04:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jan 15 06:28:11 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 08:23:33 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 10:32:14 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 01:39:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 05:49:10 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 04:19:25 -0700 2008
In between we follow and find out what happpened to the gang. Claire and her search for her gone long ag...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 04 08:27:51 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 03 11:23:28 -0700 2008 Closed Circle is the follow-up to one of my favorite books, The Rotters Club. The Rotters Club is all about a group of friends going through their adolescence and Closed Circle finds them in middle age.

Rotters Club had a political undercurrent, but this has a lot more politics in it, whi...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 12 05:52:02 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 11:11:41 -0700 2007
Well, the question is: what's happened to Jonathan Coe in the meanwhile?
Apparently he has los...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 19:34:50 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 20:02:10 -0700 2008 The Rotters' Club and was as excited as could be to read this novel, its sequel. The most exciting ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 09:23:37 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 09:27:24 -0800 2009
Follows the same people about 20 years into their lives.

What I liked about both is seeing how the political/social world of England and the time affects the characters.
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