A really impressive piece of fiction that brings together a multitude of writing styles, characters and time periods into cohesive and rather brilliant whole. They had these two kids and then she had an incredible job giving birth to the next one. Hugely readable and very enjoyable social satire drawing on English farce and spoof horror movies. The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England, which won the Costa Novel of the Year Award and the Prix du Livre Européen.He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book. What a Carve Up! This satirical novel of the greed of the 1980s actually made me laugh out loud, something that rarely happens. Which I wouldn't mention only this particular novel is 500 pages long, so the jokes had better be good ones. More example sentences ‘Actually, his relatives seem more interested in carving her up with a knife - … Its title was What a Carve Up, and after watching it again after more than two decades, the first thing I knew about my new novel was that I wanted to use this title. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead. Also a plus is the ever-shifting narrative from first person -- to manuscript -- to newspaper article -- to third person, etc. Dorothy raised an eyebrow at this assertion. show more It doubles as a murder mystery, especially during the ending, which resembles an elaborate game of Cluedo. Book 888 Jonathan Coe – What a Carve up! The Winshaw peeps represent all that was wrong with the greed decade (1980s) in Britain (when people I cared for couldn’t get a job or proper medical treatment on the national health). (Newspaper-columnist). was serialised from February to April 2005. The Maltby Collection, a comedy set in a museum featuring long-time collaborator Geoffrey Palmer, ran for three series of six episodes from 2007 to 2009. Buy What a Carve Up! What a Carve Up is a masterpiece of outrageous plotting as Coe frantically ties together disparate strands with what appear to be ridiculous coincidences which turn out to be the result of heroically Machiavellian machinations. It's all a big revenge fantasy and quite amusing and all that, but it just isn't very serious. Faith, Hope and Brenda.”, “Well, he and his wife had both been devout evangelicals for a while. 2 carve someone up, carve up someone informal Slash someone with a knife or other sharp object. is a 1961 British comedy-horror film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, and Shirley Eaton. And I’m glad I finally read it but… eh, it’s just ok. What a Carve Up! Or a parody of a suspense, as the whole book is flavored with a considerable amount of sarcasm and irony. It was released in the United States in 1962 as No Place Like Homicide. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' February 22nd 2001 is no ordinary satire. What a Carve Up is a masterpiece of outrageous plotting as Coe frantically ties together disparate strands with what appear to be ridiculous coincidences which turn out to be the result of heroically Machiavellian machinations. A tour de force of menace, malicious comedy, and torrential social bile, this book marks the American debut of an extraordinary writer. Layers of stories within stories, augmented with letters, newspaper clippings etc. Quotes Showing 1-11 of 11 “The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Only one man was named a suspect, Michael Owen, who was writing a … Directed by Pat Jackson. Welcome back. I read this book when it first came out in the mid-1990s, and it's still my favourite Jonathan Coe novel -- well, maybe joint favourite with. This novel is the companion piece to Iain Banks' slightly better Complicity; in both someone goes around murdering representatives of the vile English establishment in amusing ways. I have no idea why this book got stuck in my head years ago as something I had to read but it did and when I saw it on a shelf recently I thought why not give it a crack at long last now? Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club and Number 11. Remember when Hollywood used to keep putting out extremely similar movies, two by two, at exactly the same time, like The Truman Show and Pleasantville, or Antz and A Bug's Life? I'd read it before a few years ago, and was itching to get my hands on it again. Happily it's now been released as a book crossing book in Turkey which means there is probably zero chance of me ever seeing it again. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Faith, Hope and Brenda.”, “Well, there'll be an outcry, of course, but then it'll die down and something else will come along for people to get annoyed about. in which a mad kinfeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Bad, because the details of the events in G.B. A novel, which started as an alloy of a historical panorama of the 80's and a family chronicle takes some dramatic turns just to end in a bloody suspense. A previous version titled The Ghoul was filmed in … A novel, which started as an alloy of a historical panorama of the 80's and a family chronicle takes some dramatic turns just to end in a bloody suspense. Blah - the Tories are not funny whichever way you spin them (for those of you wishing to indulge in an experiment to prove this point, feel free to move to the UK and suffer under the current government like the rest of us). What a Carve Up! (...) ¿No la ha sentido, entonces?”. Our businesses are failing, our jobs disappearing, our countryside choking, our hospitals crumbling, our homes being repossessed, our bodies being poisoned, our minds shutting down, the whole bloody spirit of the country crushed and fighting for breath. This dividing line is very thin, just like a belt of film surrounding the earth's sphere. is so much more than a political novel, though it is certainly that. is a satirical novel by Jonathan Coe, published in the UK by Viking Press in April 1994. Welcome back. I've given it 3* but I could give it 1*. What a Carve Up! and the apparent author of those parts written in the third person, has been … It made me feel all bi-polar. The point is to spin some riffs on the various ways these creeps run the UK. Also a plus is the ever-shifting narrative from first person. A collage of a novel made up of equal parts mystery, socio-political statement, potted family history, meta-textual literary abundance. I just don't know. If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England--and is certainly the vilest. Few things can be compared to the feeling you get when you read a book (or see a movie) which everyone has been raving about and realize that it's utter crap. The family chronicles is the one written by Michael Owen, actually the main character of "The Winshaw Legacy, or What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name, in the light of the 'carve up' of the UK's resources which some felt was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s. The most angry, beautiful, cathartic, devilish, elaborate, fulsome, generous, haunting, intricate, joyful, kaleidoscopic, lustrous, mysterious, naughty, oracular, phenomenal, questing, robust, Satanic, titanic, upsetting, and venomously wild novel I've had the pleasure of reading thus far this year. Check out the official trailer for the digital production of What A Carve Up! It is funny throughout, with distinct and often repugnant characters that the reader can really sink their teeth into. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. I just didn't see the point of this book and it is now filed un. It was released in the United States in 1962 as No Place Like Homicide. Or a parody of a suspense, as the whole book is flavored with a considerable amount of sarcasm and irony. is a strange novel that from the beginning shows the reader he/she is not dealing with something ordinary. Δεν υπάρχει λόγος να περνάς μια σκανδαλώδη νομοθεσία και μετά να δίνεις στους άλλους το χρόνο να προετοιμαστούν σχετικά. Πρέπει να παρεμβαίνεις αμέσως και να την επικαλύπτεις με κάτι ακόμα χειρότερο, προτού η κοινή γνώμη προλάβει να καταλάβει το κακό που τη βρήκε.”, “Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissità del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffermarmi sulla carnagione leggermente screziata e sui suoi folti capelli ramati.”, “¿Conoce esa sensación? Genuinely harrowing in places (I don't think I will EVER forget the chapter focused on Dorothy) but this is an excellent, effectively told, gripping and funny story - and I loved Michael. #readathon16 Ένα βιβλίο που ο πρωταγωνιστής είναι συγγραφέας. Based on the novel by Jonathan Coe, What A Carve Up examines the murders of the Winshaw family in the early 90s, looking into evidence that hadn’t been brought to light at the time. In spite of my disgust with those times, I’m delighted by Coe’s absolutely horrid, unabashedly over-the-top ‘baddies’ who represent what can go wrong when creeps rule. Jonathan Coe's first book "The Winshaw Legacy, or What a Carve Up!" What a Carve Up is a masterpiece of outrageous plotting as Coe frantically ties together disparate strands with what appear to be ridiculous coincidences which turn out to be the result of heroically Machiavellian machinations. The important thing is that we save ourselves a lot of money, and meanwhile a whole generation of children from working-class or low-income families will be eating nothing but crisps and chocolate every day. The characters are almost all exaggerated caricatures (especially the cynism of the Winshaw family), the plot a bit too Agatha Christie-like and the writing style too swollen (Dickens-like). I laughed aloud and found myself exposed, so much of my insecurity was stitched into our broader tale of oligarchy and eroding standards imposed upon those who can't afford anything else. Billed as a send up of the English class system, but more of a dig at 80s poly-industrialist nepotism. is so much more than a political novel, though it is certainly that. Tired, dull, not-as-funny-as-it-thinks-it-is, satire on 1980's Tory Britain. A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision of Britain, a family history and the story of an obsession. As someone who was parked in front of a lot of 80s-90s British television at a formative age I have an attachment for the Britain of that period that is probably much the fonder for not having to have lived there. What A Carve Up! A previous version, titled The Ghoul, was filmed in 1933 by Gaumont-British Pictures. Tired, dull, not-as-funny-as-it-thinks-it-is, satire on 1980's Tory Britain. The film was loosely based on the novel The Ghoul by Frank King. Coe doesn’t stop there. M ichael Owen, the narrator of alternate sections of What a Carve Up! Find books like What a Carve Up! Remember when Hollywood used to keep putting out extremely similar movies, two by two, at exactly the same time, like The Truman Show and Pleasantville, or Antz and A Bug's Life? "Three Large Beers", a 45-minute play, was the Afternoon Drama on 10 April 2007. What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1) from the world’s largest community of readers. as well. Start by marking “What a Carve Up! 'As every general knows, the secret of winning any war is to demoralize the enemy'.”, “And so they sit at home, getting fat on the proceedings and here we all are. Jonathan Coe certainly does not lack the neccessary brio what his protagonist holds in such a high esteem. The book contains high comedy, adventure and horror. by Jonathan Coe. Or, I've given it 3*, but I could give it 5*. It is funny throughout, with distinct and often repugnant characters that the reader can really sink their teeth into. I enjoyed each scene far more than the story as an integral whole. cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. What a Carve Up! They had these two kids and then she had an incredible job giving birth to the next one. by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). (The Winshaw Legacy, #1), One of the true joys in life, in my opinion, is the right to differ. This novel is the companion piece to Iain Banks' slightly better Complicity; in both someone goes around murdering representatives of the vile English establishment in amusing ways. Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club and Number 11. Worthwhile and entertaining. “The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. What a Carve Up! - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. In spite of my disgust with those times, I’m delighted by Coe’s absolutely horrid, unabashedly over-the-top ‘baddies’ who represent what can go wrong when creeps rule. I loved this, and can say it's the first book I've really loved in ages. It's presentation of a Thatcher-infected Britain of the 1980s and early 1990s is exceedingly effective, as Coe takes pot-shots at the first Gulf War and Arms sales, the method of food production, the print media & television and the art of politics; it rails against greed and takes aim at the upper echelons of society without losing its sense of humour. is a critique of Margaret Thatcher’s reign from 1979 to 1990 where the Tories “carved up” public assets and … I decided to record videos about books and films that I consider to be important. Funny and also horrifying story of a novelist who takes on a non-fiction commissioned job of writing the story(ies) of a slimy family of greedy criminals, the Winshaws. Some parts are very informative, I myself found the desriptions about animal breeding especially dreadful. I hate the Winshaws, Fiona. Wow, this is a book with many layers to it, and it was not like anything I’ve ever read before. As such. Makes it sound like a drain, or a sewer.”, “Το κόλπο είναι να κάνεις πάντα σκανδαλώδη πράγματα. We’d love your help. those days are fading away in my memory, but good ,for now it is easy to evaluate the truth of the story and the impact of that period on today's status in Europe. To see what your friends thought of this book. Some parts are very informative, I myself found the desriptions about animal breeding especially dreadful. This one is about the novel 'What a Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. I really wanted that to be the case with. Look what they've done to you.”, “[...] because there comes a point where greed and madness can no longer be told apart. Refresh and try again. 'A diet high in sugars lead to retarded brain growth. A collage of a novel made up of equal parts mystery, socio-political statement, potted family history, meta-textual literary abundance. Jonathan Coe's What A Carve Up! 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