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A Handful of Dust
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 11-05-15
- Language: English
- Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Regular price: $20.65
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Publisher's Summary
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set.
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- 12-21-17
Scenes from a marriage
The sad and bitter tale of a man who, like Job, has everything he cares about taken away from him. Tony Last is the English squire through and through but his very name sounds the doom of his dynasty. Waugh uses his own experience as a cuckold to show the inexorable triumph of the new, commercial England over the older, subtler ways of life rooted in the great country houses and their estates. Andrew Sachs renders an already restrained tale with just the right amount of buttoned-up tension, making the most of the rare moments of black humour. Tony's grieving scenes after his great tragedy pierce the heart with their hopeless irony, as we know full well his wife will not care a jot. Waugh has few greater moments than this.
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- S. Barnes
- 03-03-17
Shatteringly brilliant.
What did you like most about A Handful of Dust?
The way the story takes you by surprise. What seems like another lively and witty portrait of the Bright Young Things turns into something bleak and grave.
What did you like best about this story?
The writing is quite beautiful. Waugh at his best, in my opinion.
What about Andrew Sachs’s performance did you like?
Andrew Sachs' performance is absolutely outstanding. The depth (and where needed - airiness) and nuance he gives each character, his timing and his reading of the text is both enlightening and moving.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Be careful what you wish for!
Any additional comments?
My favourite audibook so far!
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-07-17
Superb
Waugh's lacerating tragi-comedy of 30's society and a genteel marriage falling apart is brilliantly read by Andrew Sachs.
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- Susan Whitehead
- 06-01-17
A Handful of Dust
Brilliantly read by Andrew Sachs, he reads so clearly and with feeling. Interesting story with a twist at the end
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