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If in doubt, we will always be cautious, and preserve the original spelling. Many books have significant or minor changes between editions. We will attempt to maintain the text of the edition that we worked from, unless there is an obvious correction. 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. Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again.
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Have a card? However there are some critics who are on my side here. Love everything about it: the tone, the pace, the interaction of so many personalities. Fantastic: I read all pages in one sitting! This is a book to look up to, a towering achievement indeed. Inspiring, whimsical, hella original, and as witty as any play of manners by Oscar Wilde. Satire of British society, Vile Bodies , illustrates through literary vignettes, almost taking the aspect of humorous sketches, the puppet theatre that can represent the best-civilized humanity.
The hotel lounge, social evenings, balls and receptions, newsroom, and motor racing are so many sets that the author uses to implement his humorous and burlesque prose. You will meet a prime minister unhappy in love, a bunch of young people on the page, a stupid young writer, a lady evangelist of high calibre accompanied, like a magazine leader, by her winged troop of angels and virtues, a hostess without annoyance to the curiously biased hearing, an evil aristocrat scout, a devilishly leech drunk commander and so on.
The author is particularly clever in his funny load on social media's futilities, fond of scandal, slander and prescriber of the latest fashion vanities and other sartorial quibbles. A work indeed a little outdated, but quite funny and entertaining, using wonderfully the British humour's springs. Nataliya Yaneva. Avert your eyes lest they be burned from their sockets.
Forgive my ignorance but I'm just not that cultured. We like the finer things in life and indulge our love of drinking, dancing and outlandish behaviour much to the joy of the press who like to follow us around documenting our frivolous and moderately hedonistic acts.
We're also frightfully upper class and a tiny bit prone to navel gazing but some of us are quite arty. We can also be a little bit flaky and a wee bit emotionally sterile.
Sometimes we talk a bit like the cast of Dawson's Creek would if they were transposed to 's London. If you'd like to put us in a modern context, we're like the cast of The Hills but we've got culture, money and talent on our side. Does that answer your question?
Jack Edwards. Author 1 book k followers. A book in which every character is equally detestable. The 'Bright Young People' are superficial, snobbish, ostentatious and vulgar, and yet - much like the tabloids - you cannot look away. Such a pertinent read for todays age of digital influencers. I'd love to see a film made about this in a modern day setting.
Vat of Vapid Rubbish Devolving into a Void Each time I picked up this "novel," the question vexed me: how could it be that the same author who wrote the brilliant Brideshead Revisited also composed this doggerel volcano of vice and vileness, devoid of characters, dialogue and plot of any substance, value, or virtue?
This short novel comes across as either a manic pervert's puerile idea of high-brow humor, or a savant's crusade for the sake of literary sadism. Ending this was much like slipping free from a vat of vapid drivel that devolved into nothingness. Displaying 1 - 10 of reviews. Join the discussion.
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