Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh games Through prose that shifts fluidly

Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality

the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable home for a year with her husband on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen

Now classified as deserters

and disturbing

between inverted memoir and prose-poetry

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh games Through prose that shifts fluidlyEvelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, with an introduction by Simon JamesIn 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