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Understanding Jonathan Coe (Hardcover)
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Understanding Jonathan Coe (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Contemporary British Literature
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In Understanding Jonathan Coe, the first full-length study of the
British novelist, Merritt Moseley surveys a writer whose
experimental technique has become increasingly well received and
critically admired. Coe is the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys
Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Priz du Meilleur Livre Entranger, the
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prizes for Fiction, and the Samuel
Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. His oeuvre includes eleven novels and
three biographies--two of famous Hollywood actors Humphrey Bogart
and Jimmy Stewart and one of English modernist novelist B. S.
Johnson. Following an introductory overview of Coe's life and
career, Moseley examines Coe's complex engagement with popular
culture, his experimental technique, his political satire, and his
broad-canvased depictions of British society. Though his first
three books, An Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, and The Dwarves
of Death, received little notice upon publication, Moseley shows
their strengths as literary works and as precursors. In 1994 Coe
gained visibility with What a Carve Up!, which has remained his
most admired and discussed novel. He has since published a
postmodern take on sleep disorders and university students, The
House of Sleep; a two-volume roman-fleuve consisting of The
Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle; a touching account of a lonely
woman's life, The Rain before It Falls; a satiric vision of a
misguided life, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim; and a domestic
comedy thriller set at the 1958 world's fair in Brussels, Expo '58.
Moseley explicates these works and discusses the recurring features
of Coe's fiction: political consciousness, a deep artistic concern
with the form of fiction, and comedy.
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