A Handful of Dust
By Evelyn Waugh
(Back Bay Books, Paperback, 9780316926058, 320pp.)
Publication Date: November 1977
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Literary
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Description
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain 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 enamoured of a social parasite and professional luncheon-goer.











