Vile Bodies
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: FEP missing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
In the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures of Adam Fenwick-Symes, an aspiring novelist hopelessly entangled in the world of the Bright Young Things — a set of wealthy, reckless socialites careening from party to party in a blur of cocktails, gossip, and manufactured scandal. As Adam desperately attempts to secure enough money to marry his beloved Nina Blount, the novel presents a dazzling satirical portrait of a generation intoxicated by novelty and terrified of stillness, where fortunes are made and lost on a whim and sincerity is the gravest social offence. Waugh writes with a scalpel-sharp wit and a deceptively light touch, deploying rapid-fire dialogue and darkly comic set pieces to illustrate the profound spiritual emptiness lurking beneath the era's fashionable surface. A masterwork of twentieth-century British satire, Vile Bodies stands as a biting indictment of modernity, excess, and the brittle illusions of the inter-war generation — and its devastating final act raises a haunting question: what becomes of a world that has mistaken noise for meaning?
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Eyre Methuen
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: FEP missing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
In the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures of Adam Fenwick-Symes, an aspiring novelist hopelessly entangled in the world of the Bright Young Things — a set of wealthy, reckless socialites careening from party to party in a blur of cocktails, gossip, and manufactured scandal. As Adam desperately attempts to secure enough money to marry his beloved Nina Blount, the novel presents a dazzling satirical portrait of a generation intoxicated by novelty and terrified of stillness, where fortunes are made and lost on a whim and sincerity is the gravest social offence. Waugh writes with a scalpel-sharp wit and a deceptively light touch, deploying rapid-fire dialogue and darkly comic set pieces to illustrate the profound spiritual emptiness lurking beneath the era's fashionable surface. A masterwork of twentieth-century British satire, Vile Bodies stands as a biting indictment of modernity, excess, and the brittle illusions of the inter-war generation — and its devastating final act raises a haunting question: what becomes of a world that has mistaken noise for meaning?