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irá adorar Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro.  moosiferjones | Jul 19, 2009 |  The characters from The Rotters Club continue in this sequel but now we follow them in middle age, looking back on their lives and their mistakes. The past is as much a character in this book as that of Benjamin, Doug, Philip or Claire and reading how their lives have progressed is a reminder of the fragility of time. How your dreams and aspirations don’t always turn out how you think. The interlinked stories of each character are interwoven with a backstory of world and political events and blends into the story effortlessly. And yet, both books aren’t particularly plot driven, they are stories about people, love and life. And perhaps too a statement on our lives. Both remarkable and wonderful. (  ) theforestofbooks | Mar 1, 2009 | The Closed Circle brings the characters from The Rotters' Club forward twenty years to the turn of the millennium. The books are well written and the characters entirely believable, but I don't like them. In fact I disliked them in the first book, and loathed them in the second. There is something about that generation of New Labour fellow travellers that makes me want to sneer, and this gets in the way of the book for me. Worth reading though, for the mystery of the missing girl uncovered, and the epiphany of the Benjamin Trotter - himself possibly the most tedious and annoying character in Literary Fiction. (  ) Greatrakes | Oct 25, 2008 | Coe conferma l' originalità ed ironia del suo tratto stilistico e ci accompagna lungo la prosecuzione delle vite che avevamo visto sbocciare ne "La banda dei brocchi". Ma la sua caratteristica diventa il suo limite quando si tratta di scendere in profondità nell' animo umano, scandagliare le pieghe nascoste di un adulterio o di un incesto. Resta un quadro godibilissimo dell' Inghilterra dell' epoca di Blair ed un romanzo che si legge con facilità e godimento. Quando si termina l' ultima pagina, però, resta una sensazione di insoddisfazione. ( ) gmg61 | Oct 12, 2008 | La suite du 'Cercle fermé' est un peu décevante. L'humour est moins mordant, les personnages un peu déprimants et moins consistants. Et Sean Harding ne fait plus du tout rire. Intéressant de voir ce que les persos sont devenus, mais on aurait préféré qu'ils restent lycéens dans les 70's à jamais. ( ) R2F | Nov 19, 2007 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The characters of The Rotters’ Club—Jonathan Coe’s nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in the 1970s—have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in a story that is very much of the moment, charged with such issues as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.
On New Year’s Eve of 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a glossy new version of Britain, Benjamin Trotter watches the celebration on television in the same Birmingham house where he’d grown up. Watches, in fact, his younger brother Paul, now a member of Parliament and a rising star of New Labour, glad-handing his way through the festive crowd at the Millennium Dome. Neither of them could guess their lives are about to implode.
Paul begins an affair with his young assistant, soon realizes he has made the fatal mistake of falling in love with her, then is threatened with exposure by Doug Anderton, a journalist who happens to be one of his oldest schoolboy enemies. At the same time, Benjamin and his friend Claire, still haunted by memories almost thirty years old, make a desperate attempt to break free of the past, if only to escape the notion that their happiest years are behind them.
As Cool Britannia is forced to address its ongoing racial and social tensions—and as its role in America’s “war on terrorism” grows increasingly compromised—The Closed Circle shuttles between London and Birmingham, where fat cats, politicos, media advisers, and protesters in both locales lay bare an era when policy and PR have become indistinguishable. Meanwhile, its rich cast of characters contends with startling revelations about their youth and the pressing, perennial problems of love, vocation, and family.
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