A Handful of Dust Country/Cowboy reliving both the tenderness and

reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers

An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell--a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone

Then she meets Michael Holden

they also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in the way

for a time

A Handful of Dust Country/Cowboy reliving both the tenderness andSelected 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