Jonathan Coe
What a Carve Up! (Penguin Essentials)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241978917
- author:
- Jonathan Coe
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin 01 edition
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 512
- Dimensions:
- 11.1 x 3 x 18.1 cm
- Genre:
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, , Jonathan Coe,What a Carve Up! (Penguin Essentials),Penguin,0241978912,General & Literary Fiction,Fiction / General,Fiction / Literary,Literaire fictie algemeen,Modern & contemporary fiction,Modern & contemporary fiction (
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
What a Carve Up! is a wickedly funny satire that explores the darker side of 1980s Britain. The Winshaw family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings is laid bare by their hapless biographer Michael Owen.
The family's fortunes are built on questionable foundations: Hilary's newspaper columns rake in thousands, while her husband Henry turns hospitals into car parks; Roddy sells art for sex, Dorothy squeezes every last pound from her livestock, and Thomas makes a killing on the stock exchange. But as Michael Owen starts to investigate, the time for reckoning is drawing near.
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