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Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny perspective of aristocratic decadence in Great britain between the wars. It tells the storyplot of Tony Last, who, to the irritability of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Girl Brenda Previous embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her partner, she models in motion a collection of tragicomic disasters that expose Waugh at his most scathing. The action is set in the brittle cultural world recognizable from Decline and Land and Vile Bodies, darkened and deepened by Waugh's own connection with sexual betrayal. As Tony is motivated by the urbane savagery of the world to seek solace in the wilds of the Brazilian jungle, A Handful of Dust shows the incomparably amazing and wicked wit of one of the 20th century's most accomplished novelists.
