The Closed Circle: 'As funny as anything Coe has written' The Times Literary Supplement
Jonathan Coe
The Closed Circle: ‘As funny as anything Coe has written’ The Times Literary Supplement
Jonathan Coe
‘Probably the best English novelist of his generation’ Nick Hornby
On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents’ TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.
Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country’s increasingly compromised role in America’s ‘war against terrorism’, the characters struggle to make sense of the perennial problems of love, vocation and family.
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