What a Carve Up!
What a Carve Up!
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Published:
26 June, 2014
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Description
A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the prize-winning author of Bournvlile.
It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year:
Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't. Henry's turning hospitals into car parks. Roddy's selling art in return for sex. Down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock. Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators.
But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance . . .
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'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times
'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes' Time Out
'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' Guardian
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Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence is available now!
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241967799 |
| ISBN10 | 0241967791 |
| Number Of Pages | 512 |
| Item Weight | 357 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 31 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies -- Hilary Mantel
A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes * Time Out *
Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving * Guardian *
Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters * The Times *
A grand blast of popular literary entertainment -- Laurence O'Toole * New Statesman *
One of the most ambitious novels I have read in years and one which has pulled off the seemingly impossible trick of managing to be both amiable and angry at the same time * Spectator *
A carve-up of contemporary Britain, What a Carve Up! is also a carve-up of a book, a vertiginous, exquisitely calculated collage of texts-within-texts... one of the few pieces of genuinely political post-modern fiction around * London Review of Books *
An unusually entertaining novel, as well as being politically ambitious... it manages to switch from one tone to another with extraordinary deftness * BBC Radio Four *
Coe effortlessly spans fifty years of British political change in this hugely entertaining novel, packed full of period detail, from forties schoolboy slang to modern media wars -- Lavinia Greenlaw * Vogue *
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Author's Bio
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.