magus_eden 's review for:

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

2.0

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A deliciously promising start pays off for a delightful two-thirds of the novel before spiraling into the messy nonsense of an ill-fitting, sloppy ending. My feelings about the novel are probably best expressed by quoting Henry Green, who wrote to Waugh "I feel the end is so fantastic that it throws the rest out of proportion. Aren't you mixing two things together? It seemed manufactured and not real."