A handful of dust
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Evelyn Waugh.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction.; British -- Brazil -- Fiction.; Country homes -- Fiction.; Adultery -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.; Brazil -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. She sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. Tragedy forces the collapse of their relationship to accelerate, and Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado.