What a Carve Up! (Penguin Street Art) - Softcover

Coe, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241964768 ISBN 13: 9780241964767

Publisher: Penguin, 2013

Synopsis

Jonathan Coe's What A Carve Up! - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design.

'Tragedy had struck the Winshaws twice before, but never on such a terrible scale'

Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into carparks; 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. In fact the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the day. But once eccentric biographer Michael Owen uncovers their trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings the time seems ripe for their comeuppance . . .

'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the author of nine bestselling novels, including The Accidental Woman; A Touch of Love; What a Carve Up!; The House of Sleep, winner of the1998 Prix Médicis Étranger; The Rotters' Club, winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize; The Closed Circle; The Rain Before it Falls and The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller / How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair

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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)

About the Author:

Jonathan Coe is the author of eleven novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep and The Rotters' Club. His most recent novel is Number 11.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0241964768
• ISBN 13: 9780241964767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512