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A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

Start date: August 1, 2012

Finish date: August 31, 2012

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Sep 16, 2016 Janet rated it liked it

I really enjoyed the pointed satire showing the superficiality of the society set in 1930's England and would have liked to give this book 4 stars until the second section of the novel in which (view spoiler) it felt like two separate books. ...more

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