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A handful of dust / by Evelyn Waugh.
LIBRA PR6045.A97 H3 1999 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristocracy (Social class)--Fiction.
- Aristocracy (Social class).
- British.
- England.
- Brazil.
- British--Brazil--Fiction.
- Country homes--Fiction.
- Country homes.
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- England--Fiction.
- Brazil--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Humorous fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 308 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; New York ; London : Back Bay Books, [1999]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Little, Brown and Company. Reissued in paperback by Back Bay Books, 1999."
- ISBN:
- 0316926051 :
- 9780316926058
- OCLC:
- 42647486
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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