PMC Vile Bodies

Waugh, Evelyn

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In this novel, as in ‘Decline and Fall’, the bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and ‘vile bodies’ in every kind of capricious escapade.

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Publish Date: 03/02/2000
ISBN: 9780141182872 Category: Tags: ,

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Evelyn Waugh’s acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life.

In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties’ Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and 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 and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and 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 and 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

Additional information

Weight 213 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 16 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

202

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

823.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K