Evelyn Waugh. Vile Bodies. Jonathan Cape, 1930.

Price: US$399.99 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: "A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 1920s London, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercised their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In these pages 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 hedonistic fulfillment of their desires. Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny satire reveals the darkness and vulnerability beneath the sparkling surface of the high life. Second American printing. Book has no DJ and is in an acceptable state but is inscribed by Waugh "To Martha From Evelyn Waugh Aug 19, 1930 Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.

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