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Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times observer thank goodness for jonathan coe, who records what britain has lost in the past thirty years in his elegiac fiction scotland on sunday jonathan coe was born in birmingham in 1961. Maxwell sim is fortyeight, an only child and a lonely man. May 08, 2010 this is the world of jonathan coe s creation, maxwell sim, a man unsuccessful in almost any shared endeavour, from the maintenance of his marriage to making conversation at dinner. Maxwell sim is the kind of person who, in our darkest nights of the soul, we all dread becoming. The terrible privacy of maxwell sim is jonathan coes latest heartbreaking and hilarious novel. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. The terrible privacy of maxwell sim vintage contemporaries.
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