What a Carve Up!: 'Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad' The Times
Jonathan Coe
What a Carve Up!: ‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times
Jonathan Coe
The hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time
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.
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