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What a Carve Up!

By Jonathan Coe

What a Carve Up! Contemporary literature

What a Carve Up!

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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 . . . __________ '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 __________ Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence is available now!
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
512
Release Date:
2014-06-26
Publication Date:
2014-06-26
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241967791
ISBN13:
9780241967799
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
364 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
38 cm

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