Title: Viles Bodies
Review: It always takes me half a novel to forgive Evelyn Waugh for not being P.G.Wodehouse. . . His writing has the whimsy of Wodehouse, but he didn't play with language in the same way. What he did do well was satire.My favorite character in the book is the Aimee Semple McPherson-inspired Miss Ape. Aimee had her Angelus Temple, Miss Ape has her "angels" -- Faith, Creative Endeavor, and so on. Their lifestyle is almost as questionable as Aimee's herself.A great moment is the filming of a "meticulously accurate" film about the First Great Awakening. Two famous evangelists are fighting over the Countess Selina.Quote:"But did Whitfield and Wesley ever fight a duel?""Well it's not actually recorded, but it's known they quarrelled and there was only one way of resolving quarrels in those days."
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