In 2014 I read A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.

Timeline

• Jul 29, 2014: started reading.
• Jul 31, 2014: finished reading.

Review

I have just suffered a mighty blow at the hands of a brilliant masochist. Waugh crafts this story with such elegance and witty perspicuity that the blows he strikes are incomparably precise and utterly horrifying.