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 | The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Knopf
http://www.randomhouse.com ISBN: 0375414150 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Satire Release date: May 2005 Format: Hardcover Pages: 384 Price: $25.00 | |||
| In Birmingham on the brink of the new millennium, senior accountant and wannabe author Benjamin Trotter has never forgotten the one that got away -- Cicely Boyd -- though two decades have passed. His frustrated wife, Emily, knows she still compares unfavorably to his teen love. However, he has a new secret interest, Malvina, who works as media guru for his parliament member younger brother, Paul, who shares the attraction.
Other friends from their 1970s Rotters' Club also have come complete circle. Claire Newman has returned from years in Italy. Her ex-husband, Philip Chase, has become a journalist; so has Doug Anderton. All have moved on in Blair’s new world order yet never quite matched their dreams. As he did with the Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe takes a swift acerbic bite out of, this time, Blair’s English society excesses, which have gone full circle from the welfare state to let them eat cake as long as someone else pays the tab. The storyline is satire at its most cutting, which means the key cast members, though heading into middle age, remain caricatures representing a stereotype. No protagonist, including the Rotters' Club alumni, are fully developed, in spite of having troubles, which adds to the feeling that society is changing but its members are bushed from the changes. Not for everyone, The Closed Circle is a Pythonesque look at Blair’s England through a post-Iraq, 9/11 altering lens. | |||
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