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Michelle Wildgen: IMG A Few Initial and Not-Comprehensive Meditations on Group Novels

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I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable... Continue »
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A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

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ISBN13: 9780316926058
ISBN10: 0316926051
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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.
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ISBN:
9780316926058
Author:
Waugh, Evelyn
Publisher:
Back Bay Books
Location:
Boston :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Subject:
England
Subject:
Adultery
Subject:
British and irish
Subject:
British
Subject:
Brazil
Subject:
Satire
Subject:
Country homes
Subject:
Aristocracy
Subject:
Humorous fiction
Subject:
Aristocracy (Social class)
Copyright:
c193
Series Volume:
T-25
Publication Date:
November 1977
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
776x504x84 54
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