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

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Jonathan Coe

What a Carve Up!

‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times

Jonathan Coe

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Penguin Books Ltd
27 August 2014

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A very British upper-class family find themselves caught in a slasher-film come to life, in this spine-tingling, hilarious 1980s satire from one of our greatest British novelists

A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film 'What A Carve Up!', in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages.

Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.

By: Jonathan Coe
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 347g
ISBN: 9780241967799
ISBN 10: 0241967791
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 27 August 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Coe is the author of eleven novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep and The Rotters' Club. His most recent novel is Number 11.

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

A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies -- Hilary Mantel A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes * Time Out * Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving * Guardian * Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters * The Times *