The Closed Circle

Author: Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe

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Price : 22.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780241967720
Publisher : Penguin UK
Imprint : Penguin (General UK)
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Weight (g) : 0.312
Publication date : 01 August 2014
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
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Availability date : 27 August 2014
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Author : Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
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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.