A Handful of Dust
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After seven years...
Published By Back Bay Books
Format Paperback
Category
Number Of Pages 304
Publication Date 12/11/2012
ISBN 9780316216265
Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8.25 inches
"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
"The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet produced."—New Statesman & Nation
"Absolutely delightful."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
"Glacially sardonic....A masterpiece."—TIME
"A brilliant satirical study of the eccentric between-wars society to which Waugh belonged."—LIFE
"Waugh treats society as a wonderland in which he plays the part of a rude, libellous, yet domestic Alice."—V.S. Pritchett