A handful of dust

Description:

Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. She sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. Tragedy forces the collapse of their relationship to accelerate, and Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado.

subjects: Adultery,  Aristocracy (Social class),  British,  Country homes,  Divorce,  Fiction,  Fiction, satire,  Fiction, humorous,  Brazil, fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  England, fiction,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Upper class

Places: Brazil,  England

Times: 1930's