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-go...
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.
“Reading Waugh is like being air-kissed by a socialite who clutches your shoulder in mock affection with one hand while raising an ice-pick behind your back with the other. You know you should be on guard for certain disaster, but charisma sweeps you away ...
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伊夫林·沃 作者
phoebe
人民文学出版社2018版
Abricot
Penguin Classics2010版
爪呱国国王
首都师范大学出版社2015版
fang
偷书贼
人民文学出版社2018版
度谙
首都师范大学出版社2015版
0 有用 vermiglia 2014-02-26 20:56:58
EW早期的作品还是有点情味的，虽然刻薄依旧。
0 有用 红豆珍妮弗 2023-08-18 11:56:58 江苏
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
4 有用 xitchcock 2010-09-13 23:33:14
那个alternative ending据说是应美国出版商的要求加的，跟主人公被软禁在亚马逊丛林里高声朗读狄更斯小说以度余生简直是天上地下。好在沃最后不忘耍个花招，安排了托尼续租布兰达在伦敦的房间。毕竟是高手。
6 有用 bayer04 2015-11-26 02:15:31
神结尾……沃的书不管如何讽刺小说中心的男主角必须是暖男
0 有用 花岛仙藏 2015-02-12 15:41:59
A good read. Very disquieting, very atrocious. Still savouring every line of it, oh being among the gentry is truly a nightmare.