Number 11, or, Tales that witness madness

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Rachel and Alison, two girls who have come of age in an era of reality TV and social media, stalk a vividly imagined world alongside surviving characters from Coe’s earlier novel ‘What A Carve Up!’, the classic 90s satire. Rachel, a bewildered Oxford graduate, finds herself catapulted into the world of private tutoring for the super-rich, while Alison’s dreams of becoming an artist are quashed by a bitter tabloid columnist. Jonathan Coe’s new novel is the story for our times: moving from the distant rumble of the Iraq War to the austerity years of the Britain we know now. Coe uses all his wit and acute powers of satire and observation to show up a mirror to our absurd and unsettling new world.

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SKU: 9780241967010 Category: Tag: Publisher/imprint : Penguin Books
Page count : 350
Published on 7th April, 2016

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This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.

It’s about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.

It’s about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.

It’s about how 140 characters can make fools of us all.

It’s about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street.

It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best — showing us how we live now.

‘Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times’ Observer

Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe’s unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence, is available to order now!

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Weight 0.256 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13 × 2.6 cm
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