· Number 11 is also a sequel, of sorts, to Coe’s novel, What a Carve Up!, the monstrously funny satire-cum-farce about the monstrously terrible Winshaw family, whose lust for Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Jonathan Coe: Number When I first saw the title of this book and learned that it was something of an updating of Coe’s earlier and superb What a Carve Up! (US: The Winshaw Legacy), I thought it was going to be about 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and, in particular, about the current incumbent, the Prince of Darkness, George Osborne. Outsider artist Josep Baquè () gets a shout-out in Jonathan Coe's novel Number Do NOT go down to the basement. Ever. Here's the only novel ever where a food bank is a major rendezvous point. Burning questions: Can Lady Gunn really expand her Chelsea mansion's basement eleven storeys? (Including bowling alley, home theater, pool with palm trees and one spacious empty level /5().
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Number 11 by Jonathan Coe, read by Rory Kinnear and Jessica www.doorway.ru is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of i. Born in in what is now the West Midlands, since his debut The Accidental Woman in Jonathan Coe has carved out a niche as one of Britain's finest exponents of satiric cultural observation. Novels such as What a Carve Up!, The Rotter's Club and Number 11 create a wincingly-accurate portrait of Britain through the seventies and beyond, complete with all its petty class warfare and. Elevens abound in Jonathan Coe's latest novel — his 11th. Among designated elevens are a storage locker, a table seating, and Birmingham's No 11 bus, which circles the entire city.
Number 11 is a baroquely plotted, densely allusive, heart-on-his-sleeve, state-of-the-nation satire, an angry and exuberant book Coe is not just back, but back on top form." - Sunday Times (UK) - Sunday Times (UK). Combining his signature humor, psychological insight and social commentary, Jonathan Coe holds up a disquieting, unforgiving mirror in which to reflect a world where the systems are broken and everyone can—and perhaps must—name his or her own price. About Number Beginning in the early years of this century, Number 11 follows two friends, Alison and Rachel, as they come of age. With Number 11, therefore, the idea was to make readers feel fearful and uneasy, rather than making them laugh. The book draws on memories of things that had scared me as a child, from Hitchcock’s Psycho to the stories of H G Wells.
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