``I am in the middle of rereading an old favorite, A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh's devastatingly funny, ultimately shocking satire of civilization andsociety. It's incredibly breezy reading with a dark underbelly, a page-turnerwith claws and fangs, and even on this, my fourth time through it, I amstill blown away by the book's breathtaking, sharp brilliance.''

-- KATE CHRISTENSEN,

author of Trouble

Christensen appears at 8 p.m.

Thursday at Books & Books,

265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables.

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