Title:
A handful of dust / Evelyn Waugh.
ISBN:
9780760725177
9780316926058
9780316216265
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Barnes & Noble, 2001.
Physical Description:
196 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Originally published in 1934.
Copyright renewed 1962.
Summary:
A HANDFUL OF DUST satirizes that stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom and becomes enamored of a social parasite and professional lunch-goer. The depravity and polished savagery of these characters offer an opportunity for Waugh's rapier wit and subtly to "show us fear in a handful of dust."
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OCLC Number:
ocm48891193
Availability:
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