The Winshaw Legacy or What a Carve Up! - Hardcover

Coe, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679433856 ISBN 13: 9780679433859

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995

Synopsis

A young writer pieces together the true story of the Winshaw dynasty--a family of greedy, power-hungry bankers, politicians, arms dealers, and more--a story that begins to converge with the plot of a film created nearly thirty years earlier. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Birmingham in 1961, Jonathan Coe took degrees from Cambridge and Warwick universities. He lives in London.

From the Inside Flap:

ommend The Winshaw Legacy as I a superb political novel, or as a fiendishly clever meta-novel, or as a unique modern historical novel, or as a riveting family saga, but I'm afraid that would drive everyone, yawning in terror, straight out of the bookstore. So let's just say it has naked pictures of Natasha Richardson...Can't say that? Well, let's say it's a nasty farce with lots of bathroom humor and violence which reminds me at least as much of Fawlty Towers as it does of Midnight's Children.'

-- Jay McInerney

A postmodern detective story, a scathing send-up of the rapacious eighties, a macabre Gothic -- all rolled up in a bravura tragicomic entertainment.

The Winshaw family, as their official biographer is warned by old Mortimer Winshaw himself, is the meanest, greediest, cruellest bunch of backstabbing penny-pinching bastards who ever crawled across the face of the earth.' Bankers, industrialists, politicians, arms dealers and media barons -- they rule Britann

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679433856
• ISBN 13: 9780679433859
• Binding: Hardcover