by Jonathan Coe · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140234213
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«What a Carve Up!» is Jonathan Coe's satirical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (512 pages, in English).
A solitary writer named Michael can't stop thinking about a horror film in which a maniac stabs the inhabitants of a mansion during a storm. When he's commissioned to write the story of the Winshaws, an influential Yorkshire family, he realises that this clan has marked his life and that of the country.
First instalment of the The Winshaw Legacy series. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1994) and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (1996).
For readers of political satire and contemporary British fiction.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
