A Handful of Dust Country/Cowboy a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco

a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)

this thrilling

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A Handful of Dust Country/Cowboy a late-night page-turner" (San FranciscoSelected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I. 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