num_pages: 308
description: Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, 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.
language: English
title: A Handful of Dust
titlecomplete: A Handful of Dust
characters: Brenda Last, Doctor Messinger, Tony Last, Polly Cockpurse, Missis Beaver, John Grant-Menzies, John Beaver, Mister Todd
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, Classics, British Literature, Modern Classics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 25799
places: England
publisher: Back Bay Books