{"product_id":"vile-bodies","title":"Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies [2022] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new Introduction by Simon James\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. In a quest for treasure, a favourite party occupation, 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 fulfilment of unconscious desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eVile Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Waugh's \u003ci\u003eA Handful of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The high point of the experimental, original Waugh'\u003cbr\u003eMalcolm Bradbury, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This brilliantly funny, anxious and resonant novel ... the difficult edgy guide to the turn of the decade'\u003cbr\u003eRichard Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It's Britain's \u003ci\u003eGreat Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cbr\u003eStephen Fry, director of \u003ci\u003eVile Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e film adaptation \u003ci\u003eBright Young Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waugh, Evelyn","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46552444764499,"sku":"9780241585283","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/waugh-evelyn-vile-bodies-9780241585283-50523411939667.jpg?v=1682530180","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/vile-bodies","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}