Title: Gothic social satire
Product review: Re-reading the final chapters of the book last night I realised they read much as a short story would. It is more than a little praise to say that not only Jonathan Coe's book contains enough material for several books but that the one he has authored is superior to the mere summ of its parts. It is rare for a novel to be both so cleverly gripping and so poignant, so well researched (I was flabbergasted by the precision of the part about industrial chicken production) and so funny.But there's also a political dimension in the book that is quite clear and a little disingenuous: all evil, it seems to say, comes from greed, all the greed is concentrated in the upper-classes: two more than dubious propositions. Happily I must say, otherwise one would be tempted to resort to the kind of solution suggested in the book by Morty Windshaw.
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