What a Carve Up!

What a Carve Up!
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 570
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ISBN-10 : 9780141918334
ISBN-13 : 0141918330
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Book Synopsis What a Carve Up! by : Jonathan Coe

Download or read book What a Carve Up! written by Jonathan Coe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-05-19 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government by the prize-winning author of Middle England. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: 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. 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 . . . __________ 'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes' Time Out 'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' Guardian Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence is available to pre-order now!


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