What a Carve Up!
by:
Jonathan Coe (author)
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...
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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; and Mark is selling arms to dictators.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141033297 (0141033290)
Publish date: May 1st 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 501
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Family,
Politics,
Contemporary,
Thriller
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