A Touch of Love

Resumen del libro

Robin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptness and sexual inexperience, once spent hours in coffee bars discussing their theories, but somehow they never made it on to paper. Now his unwritten thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened of the world around him. His friends have failed him, and, obsessed by a former unrequited love, romance eludes him. It seems that everything is conspiring against him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks, unpublished, which express his secret obsessions and frustrations.

Then, when an unfortunate and embarrassing incident in a public park lands him in serious trouble, his life spirals out of control. It seems that nothing, in life and fiction, turns out as predicted ...

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Jonathan Coe (Birmingham, 1961) estudió en las universidades de Cambridge y Warwick, y ha sido colaborador de London Review of Books y The Times Literary Supplement. En Anagrama ha publicado cinco novela, que lo han consagrado como uno de los mejores escritores de su generación, empezando por ¡Menudo reparto!, que fue galardonada con el Premio The Mail on Sunday/John Lewellyn Rhys y, en Francia, con el Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. Su novela posterior, La casa del sueño, obtuvo el Writer's Guild Best Fiction y, en Francia, el Prix Médicis Étranger. La siguiente, El Club de los Canallas, obtuvo el Premio Arcebispo San Clemente, otorgado en Santiago de Compostel. Coe retomó a los protagonistas de esta novela veinte años después, en la Inglaterra de Blair, en El Círculo Cerrado.x{0026}lt;/p