A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust

by EvelynWaugh (Author)

Synopsis

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the crazy and sterile generation between the wars.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 09 Jun 1988

ISBN 10: 0140111506
ISBN 13: 9780140111507

Author Bio
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called one of the century's great masters of English prose, wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.