What a carve up!

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4"They're not monsters you know. Not really," says Mortimer Winshaw, heir to desolate Winshaw Towers, of his clan. Oh, but they are, really, real monsters. And Jonathan Coe's növel is, really, something to get excited about... [a] big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving treat of a növel' - Shaun Whiteside in the Guardian ' What a Carve Up! is a sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of narrative twists and deft ironies' - Hilary Mantel in the Sunday Times '[A] riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes... craftily contrived and often breathtakingly clever. Here is gothic, here is parody, here is political acuity ... an absolute delight' - Steve Grant in Time Out A work that lives up to the memory of Charles Dickens by being everything a növel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters... far more ambitious than anything Coe has attempted before in his fiction. It is exciting to see... Tovább

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4"They're not monsters you know. Not really," says Mortimer Winshaw, heir to desolate Winshaw Towers, of his clan. Oh, but they are, really, real monsters. And Jonathan Coe's növel is, really, something to get excited about... [a] big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving treat of a növel' - Shaun Whiteside in the Guardian ' What a Carve Up! is a sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of narrative twists and deft ironies' - Hilary Mantel in the Sunday Times '[A] riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes... craftily contrived and often breathtakingly clever. Here is gothic, here is parody, here is political acuity ... an absolute delight' - Steve Grant in Time Out A work that lives up to the memory of Charles Dickens by being everything a növel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters... far more ambitious than anything Coe has attempted before in his fiction. It is exciting to see such ambition realized' - Erica Wagner in The Times 'Coe's növel arraigns a whole gaggle of gargoyles, and delivers a comeuppance with pungent brio ... he has written a book that counts the humán cost of the self-help, screw-you philosophy currently at large, but the sound it makes is not of tubs being thumped or hands being wrung - it's the raucous and far more apposite sound of horrid laughter' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent 'A remarkable achievement; intelligent, funny, and important' - Nicholas Lezárd in The Times Literary Supplement Vissza