What a Carve Up!: A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the award-winning author of Middle England - Brossura

Coe, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0241967791 ISBN 13: 9780241967799

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2014

Riassunto

A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the prize-winning author of Middle England.

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

Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence is available now!

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jonathan Coe was born a few miles from Bournville in 1961. The author of political satires such as Bournville, What a Carve Up! and Number 11, and family sagas such as The Rotters' Club and The Rain Before It Falls, his novels have won prizes at home and abroad, including Costa Novel of the Year and the Prix du Livre Européen (both for Middle England).

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A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0241967791
• ISBN 13: 9780241967799
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile