Bibliograph

The closed circle, Jonathan Coe

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The closed circle, Jonathan Coe

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The closed circle

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Coe

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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