Vile Bodies By Evelyn Waugh (Paperback, 2000)

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Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny & formally daring satire Vile Bodies reveals the darkness & vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Richard Jacobs In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges wistful & vulnerable beneath the glitter The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair with their paradoxical mix of innocence & sophistication exercise their inventive minds & vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade
- whether promiscuity dancing cocktail parties or sports cars In a quest for treasure a favourite party occupation a vivid assortment of characters among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes & the glamorous aristocratic Nina Blount hunt fast & furiously for ever greater sensations & the fulfilment of unconscious desires If you enjoyed Vile Bodies you might like Waugh's A Handful of Dust also available in Penguin Modern Classics' The high point of the experimental original Waugh' Malcolm Bradbury Sunday Times' This brilliantly funny anxious & resonant novel the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade' Richard Jacobs' It's Britain's Great Gatsby' Stephen Fry director of Vile Bodies film adaptation Bright Young Things