A Handful of Dust - Couverture rigide

Waugh, Evelyn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0375414207 ISBN 13 : 9780375414206

Editeur : Everymans Library, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Waugh Evelyn

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing.

The action is set in the brittle social world recognizable from Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, darkened and deepened by Waugh’s own experience of sexual betrayal. As Tony is driven by the urbane savagery of this world to seek solace in the wilds of the Brazilian jungle, A Handful of Dust demonstrates the incomparably brilliant and wicked wit of one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished novelists.

Revue de presse

“A vicious, witty novel.” —New York Times

“Waugh’s technique is relentless and razor-edged...By any standard it is super satire.” —Chicago Daily News

“The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet produced.” —New Statesman & Nation

“A story both tragic and hilariously funny, that seems to move along without aid from its author...Unquestionably the best book Mr. Waugh has written.” —Saturday Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Everymans Library
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375414207
• ISBN 13: 9780375414206
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 225
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible