What a Carve Up! - Softcover

Coe, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140234217 ISBN 13: 9780140234213

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' - Guardian Telling the stories of the wealthy Winshaw family, WHAT A CARVE UP! is a riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes.

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Review:

Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving (Guardian)

Probably the best English novelist of his generation (Nick Hornby)

Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters (The Times)

A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies (Hilary Mantel Sunday Times)

Synopsis:

Michael is a lonely writer, obsessed by a film featuring a mad knifeman. When he is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws he realizes that the family have cast a blight on his life and he decides to take his revenge by re-enacting his favourite film.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140234217
• ISBN 13: 9780140234213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512