EPISODE · Jul 4, 2019 · 12H 37M
Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph
from Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Jonathan Coe
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph Author: Jonathan Coe Narrator: Nicholas Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 4, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks. Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic and riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance and furtive sex, The Rotters' Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph Author: Jonathan Coe Narrator: Nicholas Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 4, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks. Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic and riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance and furtive sex, The Rotters' Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.
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Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph
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