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Set against the backdrop of the Millennium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', The Closed Circle is a darkly comic, hugely engaging, and compulsively readable novel. The book reintroduces us to the characters first encountered in Jonathan Coe's bestselling novel The Rotters' Club. It's a novel of experience, unlike the innocent novel of The Rotters' Club, that takes a candid look at the era and its politicians and legislators.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Humorous Fiction/Comic Satire
Authors: Jonathan Coe
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