Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket also in good condition.
“I can’t bear you when you’re not amusing.”
The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties, or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the hedonistic fulfillment of their desires. Evelyn Waugh’s acidly funny and experimental satire shows a new generation emerging in the years after the First World War, revealing the darkness and vulnerability beneath the glittering surface of the high life.
Read Alikes for Vile Bodies: Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh; Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh; Party Going by Henry Green; The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket also in good condition.
“I can’t bear you when you’re not amusing.”
The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties, or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the hedonistic fulfillment of their desires. Evelyn Waugh’s acidly funny and experimental satire shows a new generation emerging in the years after the First World War, revealing the darkness and vulnerability beneath the glittering surface of the high life.
Read Alikes for Vile Bodies: Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh; Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh; Party Going by Henry Green; The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN 0-316-92616-7
Evelyn Waugh
1930 (This ed. 1977)
