The Winshaw Legacy - or What a carve up!

Jonathan Coe

Vintage International

2000

579 páginas

19h 18m

ISBN-13: 9780525434351

"An exuberant social satire... Very enjoyable and darkly acerbic." - Boston Globe

"Hilarious... riotous... Beyond the zestfully wry and ginger tone, Coe socres palpable hits as he satirizes an array of politico-historical targets... A comic/Gothic delight, The Winshaw Legacy has the air of and idea conceived by the Brontës, reworked by Dickens, and played by the Monty Python crowd... A gem." - Chcago Tribute

" A remarkable achievement; intelligent, funny and important." - The Times Literary Supplement (London)

"Horrifyingly believable and heartbraking... An Orwellian satire... Coe's book is an elaborate hubbub of styles and genres. It is a baroque detective story and a parody of all such stories. It is a juggling of reality. It is a succession of mordant cartoon pamphlets... Like Orwell, Coe elicits our impulse to do something." - Los Angeles Times

"A treat of a novel... Hilarious, intricate, furious, moving." - The Guardian (London)