Critical Reaction
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Handful of Dust 34th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It also made a similar list created by Time Magazine in 2005.
Christopher Sykes, Waugh's biographer, thinks that "the title was not apposite".
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