A Handful of Dust by Waugh, Evelyn

Back Bay Books. Used - Good. Good condition. Slightly dampstained.

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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1962. Wraps have lightly rubbed edges. Pages are clean with no markings in text. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Little wear. Pages are clean and tight and the spine has just one crease. Originally published in 1934, this edition was released in conjunction with the release of a movie based upon the book. A satire on upper class British life where the characters all seem to have money, but little else.

Back Bay Books, 1999. Thirteenth. Paperback. Like New, slight wear to cover.

Back Bay Books, September 1999. Paperback. Good - Trade. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

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.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Back Bay Books, September 1999. Trade Paperback. Used.