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Vile Bodies - An Impact Book
Paperback
RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Impact
Published: Mar 29 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A reckless generation tears through London in a whirl of parties, scandals, and collapsing fortunes.
In Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh delivers a fast-moving, darkly comic portrait of the Bright Young Things, a circle of socialites living for sensation in the years between the wars. Nights blur into mornings as champagne flows, reputations rise and fall overnight, and gossip travels faster than truth.
At the center is Adam Fenwick-Symes, a writer struggling to secure enough money to marry the woman he loves. But in a world ruled by chance, extravagance, and sudden reversals, stability remains just out of reach. Around him, a cast of vivid characters chase excitement with little regard for consequence, drifting toward disillusionment as the world itself begins to shift.
Sharp, stylish, and relentlessly entertaining, Vile Bodies captures the energy of an era on the edge-where glamour masks uncertainty and excess carries its own quiet cost.
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