Vile Bodies [Evelyn Waugh] - It is a gift to the satirist to live in turbulent times but there still remains the task of encapsulating them. In Vile Bodies, an ostensibly superficial comic novel Evelyn Waugh brilliantly, hilariously, unflinchingly but always humanely pinions a society which is in thrall to gossip and decadence traumatised by war and financial catastrophe yet unable to stop itself. This is a book as much for our age as it is for when Waugh wrote it in 1930.
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