A Handful of Dust
Author: Waugh, Evelyn
ISBN: 9780241585276
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 05 Jan 2023
Pages: 336
Format: Hardback
Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, now in a wonderful new hardback edition
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 breakdown of society.
ISBN: 9780241585276
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 05 Jan 2023
Pages: 336
Format: Hardback
Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, now in a wonderful new hardback edition
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 breakdown of society.
