A Handful of Dust
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0316926051 / Publisher: Back Bay Books, September 1999
A satire of the English upper class depicts the breakup of a marriage among London's gentry
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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.
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