In a 2002 review, The New York Times praised The Rotters' Club as "richly constructed and brilliantly ornamented."[6] The Daily Telegraph characterized the book as an "ambitious... moving, richly comic novel," according to the publisher's website.[7] A review in The Guardian was more ambivalent, critiquing Coe's tendency to introduce larger social and political issues into a coming-of-age story, arguing that various characters "undergo rites of passage that make no difference."[8]
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