1. New genre: split-up lit: novels/stories growing out of divorce/separation. Waugh's Handful of Dust, Roth's My Life As a Man....
4. Objectively speaking, Handful of Dust is a pretty self-serving account of Waugh's divorce (wife is completely self-centered, vapid)
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5. Still Handful is a funny, expertly structured book, with a devastating satirical bite.
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6. Motives behind satire can be petty, but results still have a wider human resonance. True of Pope & Swift as well as Waugh.
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