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Vile Bodies (CD-Audio)
$23.90 - Save $6.28 20% off - RRP $30.18 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Vile BodiesA study of the 1920s/30s and the difference between the high-living, party going 'bright young people' and the older, more traditional rich, who represent and uphold societal expectations and criticise the 'free' ways of the young. It is both funny and starkly poignant.
Full description- Publisher: CSA WORD
- Published: 10 September 2008
- Format: CD-Audio
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781906147273 ISBN 10: 1906147272
- Sales rank: 1,038,569
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Full description for Vile Bodies
"Vile Bodies" is both a celebration of the hedonism of the young and a warning to those who believe that their license to indulge is infinite and unquestionable. A whole host of characters are introduced throughout Waugh's thought-provoking and often highly satirical story, which follows protagonist Adam through the perils and pitfalls of securing his marriage to Nina Blount, his fiancee. Roll on an eccentric (verging on senile) father-in-law-to-be, parties at 10 Downing Street, a soiree in a Zeppelin, high times at Shepheard's hotel, where wine is always flowing, and the shocking and brilliant misbehaviour of Miss Agatha Runcible, who eventually finds drag racing a little 'too, too, sick-making! Not without pathos and serious undertones, Waugh works a winning formula to produce an accomplished and mature 'funny' novel.
