What a Carve Up!

Beschreibung

The hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.<BR><BR>It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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. . . <BR><BR>This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize<BR><BR><BR>'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times<BR><BR>'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes' Time Out<BR><BR>'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' Guardian<BR><BR>Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence is available now!

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