TY - BOOK AU - Coe,Jonathan TI - Number 11: or, Tales that witness madness SN - 9780670923809 AV - PR6053.O26 N86 2015 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2015/// CY - United Kingdom PB - Viking KW - Short stories KW - Satire KW - Manners and customs KW - fast KW - London (England) KW - Social life and customs KW - 21st century KW - Fiction KW - England KW - London KW - lcgft KW - Adult fiction KW - Print N1 - The black tower -- The comeback -- The crystal garden -- The Winshaw prize -- What a whopper! N2 - 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 ER -