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Jonathan Coe, The rotters club, a novel

From: bookie
Date: 08 Jul 2010
Time: 11:07:33 -0500

Review

lavishly praised, the book starts ok, brummy schooldaze 70s nostalgia, but lacks momentum, and the different voices (school mag, diary etc) don't hold the attention, his writing is too weak to stand up to much without plotty drive.