rmkujawa 's review for:

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

4.0

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Since there was no plot summary on the jacket, I had absolutely no idea what to expect with this book. And that was probably the best way to go into this oddball novel - I enjoyed every twist and turn of this completely delightful, bitingly witty satire of the mid-war years in Britain precisely because I had no object but entertainment in mind. It has more in common with a P.G. Wodehouse novel than a F. Scott Fitzgerald one, and since I had usually placed Waugh in the latter camp for 20s fiction I was pleasantly surprised to find Waugh so adept in both genres. I hope to pick up another Waugh satire soon!