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Modern Classics Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Evelyn Waugh

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Modern Classics Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Modern Classics Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Modern Classics Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Evelyn Waugh

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Taking its title from T. S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is 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. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society. If you enjouyed A Handful of Dust, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels; and one of its best'Nicholas Lezard, Guardian'One of the most distinguished novels of the century'Frank Kermode'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire, and is funny, too ... a marvellous book'John Banville, Irish Times | Modern Classics Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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