What a Carve Up!: ‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times - Couverture souple

Coe, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241978912 ISBN 13 : 9780241978917

Editeur : Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

The hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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. . .

This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize


'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!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club and Number 11. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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. . .

This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241978912
• ISBN 13: 9780241978917
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: {language_tag:fr_FR,value:"Van Ditmar Boeken BV; sales@vanditmar.nl"}