The breakdown of his own marriage is reflected in the domestic drama in A Handful of Dust. Quantity: 1 Add to Basket Unknown Binding. Seller Rating: Contact seller Used Condition: GOOD US 4.39 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. 'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire, and is funny, too.a marvelous book.' (John Banville, Irish Times). Evelyn Waughs 1934 novel makes the transition from his earlier, satirical works into realism. A Handful of Dust & Decline and Fall (2 Novels in One book) Evelyn Waugh Published by Dell Books Seller: Discover Books, Toledo, U.S.A. 'One of the most distinguished novels of the century.' (Frank Kermode).

'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels and one of its best.' (Nicholas Lezard, Guardian). If you enjoyed A Handful of Dust, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 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. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars.

She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. 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. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis. 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.

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh