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    <body><![CDATA[I have had this book on my shelves since I finished Brideshead Revisited three years ago.  I really do enjoy Waugh's writing and his observations of life in Britain of the 20s/30's...He is especially gifted at creating characthers (good, bad and ugly) that you are drawn to and can understand.  His c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38295574">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As you’d expect from Evelyn Waugh, <em>A Handful of Dust</em> is a very funny novel.  But this is very black comedy.  Written in 1934, this is a biting and at times quite cruel satire on the aimless, bored, empty and hedonistic and lifestyles of the upper classes and their hangers-on.  The Depression has h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19285230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now I know where Martin Amis got his writing style from. &quot;Pastoral&quot; would be a kind word to describe this work, as weirdly absorbing as it becomes. The basic premise mirrors that of many comedies of manners from around its time; wife takes apartment in the city and takes a lover, leaving t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15133705">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is appropriate that Waugh should allude to &quot;The Waste Land,&quot; since A Handful of Dust is itself a satirical expose of the moral waste land that is modern society, a world drifting without the anchor of religion and tradition. But Waugh’s message is communicated both gradually and subtl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10915429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess this is supposed to be a tragedy of sorts, or Gothic as his chapter titles suggest, but Waugh treats everything so lightly that you finish it not feeling overly sorry for the poor man who is wronged, nor do you care much for the other characters and their &quot;satisfactory&quot; endings. It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24633982">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderfully acerbic satire of upper-class life. In some ways very relevant to the present, where a large swath of America lives a bit like the British aristocracy of 70 years ago.<br/><br/>Still, enough has changed that I feel certain I missed a lot of the commentary, not understanding, for instan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7276022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like the British version of Gatsby, only darker with a wackier ending than you'd expect it to have. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>As Good As it Gets: Surreal, Amoral, Aristocratic Decadence , 29 Jul 2007 <br/>                <br/><br/><br/>&quot;And I will show you something different from either <br/>Your shadow at morning striding behind you <br/>Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; <br/>I will show you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41854151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What delicious fun!  This book is usually called a satire, by which it seems to be meant that Waugh disliked almost all the characters and usually selected the nasty option for their actions in the story.  That is not normally my cup of tea, but he was so extremely good at it.  So, a slightly naught...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78119002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don’t know why I thought this was going to be a comedy, but I did think that when I started.  The problem might have been the title, the clear allusion to Eliot’s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400412.The_Waste_Land_and_Other_Poems" title="The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot">The Waste Land and Other Poems</a> - you can only really be either ponderous or funny if you allude to <em> The Waste Land</em> and I just suspe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76561417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a dark and savage satire on British society in the 30's;<br/><br/>&quot;It was, transparently, a made-up party, the guests being chosen for no mutual bond—least of all affection for Mrs. Beaver or for each other—except that their names were in current use . . .&quot; p. 51<br/><br/>W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39932077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The rich but feckless people in Austen and Trollope's novels?  Now their children are trying to keep up the manor around the time of the first world war, and things aren't going well, because they are no longer so rich but they are still feckless.  The end is devastating!  Oh wait, should I not say ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6290906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book. Waugh is a master of dialogue and characterization. His prose is clear and concise and his characters are flesh and blood, they come to life. And for him to create characters that I both despised and pitied took clever brilliance.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Handful of Dust is an interesting story but was actually really frustrating to me.  It's supposed to be satirizing the class system of England.  A man is obsessed with his estate and bores his wife, so she gets a flat in London.  Though she seems to be very much in love with her husband, the book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52538021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am so impressed by (and envious of) Waugh's ability to convey both humor and sadness within a single sentence, sometimes even within a single word. He's a fantastic writer and I enjoyed this book a lot.]]></body>
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