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| Title | : | What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy #1) |
| Author | : | Jonathan Coe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 512 pages |
| Published | : | February 22nd 2001 by Penguin Books, Limited (UK) (first published April 28th 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary |
Jonathan Coe
Paperback | Pages: 512 pages Rating: 4.1 | 8938 Users | 597 Reviews
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One of the true joys in life, in my opinion, is the right to differ. 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. I really wanted that to be the case with What A Carve Up, although, having read Coe in the past, I knew there wasn't much chance for that.It's one of those books that I feel there's not much point talking about. No matter what I say about it, you cannot grasp the true brilliance of Coe's masterpiece until you've read it. No words can do it justice. Political comedy, an accusing point with the finger to the powers that be or a mystery novel? Coe proves that sometimes there's absolutely no point in categorizing what's beyond categorization.
P. S.: The chapter about Dorothy is one of the most traumatic, brilliant and, simply put, perfect chapters in the history of literature, while the symbolism of the ending had me just blankly staring at the page for what seemed like a very long time.
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| Original Title: | What a Carve Up! |
| ISBN: | 0140294562 (ISBN13: 9780140294569) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Winshaw Legacy #1 |
| Literary Awards: | John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1994), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1996) |
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Ratings: 4.1 From 8938 Users | 597 ReviewsJudgment Containing Books What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy #1)
This book is absolutely wonderful. I'd read it before a few years ago, and was itching to get my hands on it again. I'm not sure exactly why it's so great - fantastic characterisation, a hugely twisting and turning plot, hilariously funny, consistently surprising...it has it all.Micheal Owen is an out of luck writer who was commissioned to write a history of the Winshaw Family, a hugely rich and hugely powerful family who between them manage to carve up pretty much every influential sphere of2018 reread review: One little fear I have when I reread a favourite book is if I dislike it. This is the third time Ive read Jonathan Coes fourth novel What a Carve Up! and not only did I like it more than the previous 2 readings but I discovered how deep Coes sense of satire is.The centerpiece of the book could be The Winshaws, the awful aristocratic family or Michael Owen, the person who has been commissioned to write biography about the Winshaws but in reality, I would say that the film What
It's a bad and a good thing I read this one this year for the first time. Bad, because the details of the events in G.B. 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. It is a brilliant ,bitter, black humored story that needs more than one reading.
This book was recommended to me by a friend who stated it was a "fun read". Oh my god, is this your idea of fun? Are you crazy, woman? Tired, dull, not-as-funny-as-it-thinks-it-is, satire on 1980's Tory Britain. 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). I just didn't see the point of this book and it is now filed
Hugely readable and very enjoyable social satire drawing on English farce and spoof horror movies. Ostensibly the story of the Winshaw family - a family "stuck twice by tragedy but never on such a terrible scale" (as the book both starts and ends). One of the two brothers of the second generation Godfrey is shot down on a crew mission in the war, causing his closest sister Tabitha to cause the other brother Lawrence of his murder with such vehemence and persistence that she is taken to a mental
One of the true joys in life, in my opinion, is the right to differ. 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. I really wanted that to be the case with What A Carve Up, although, having read Coe in the past, I knew there wasn't much chance for that. It's one of those books that I feel there's not much point talking about. No matter what I say about it, you cannot grasp the true
Normally if I don't enjoy a book that someone recommends me I assume that I must be missing something, they like it there must be something great about it. I don't feel that way about this book. Even though nick hornby says coe is the greatest modern writer and Karen said this was his best book. I am not saying this book is bad, it isn't. It just didn't strike me as horribly amazing. What was great were both endings in the novel. Coe really starts to figure out what people like me want to read
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