by Jonathan Coe · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141033297
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«What a Carve Up!» is Jonathan Coe's satirical novel, published by Penguin in paperback (512 pages, in English).
In the 1980s, biographer Michael Owen investigates the Winshaws, a powerful English family that has enriched itself through the press, the stock market, arms and agricultural exploitation. Set in the Thatcher era, the work combines black humour, social criticism and references to the eponymous B-movie that obsesses the protagonist.
First instalment of the The Winshaw Legacy series. Originally published in 1994, it was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
For readers of political satire and black humour, especially those interested in 1980s Britain.
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.
