In this lively account, biographer Patey follows Evelyn Waugh's career from the comfortable middle-class home he was anxious to flee, through his escapades at Oxford, his adventures in South America and Africa, his experience of war, to his last years as veiled autobiographer. In the process, the author explores the nature of Waugh's Catholicism and examines how his religious beliefs began to guide his novelistic practice. Arguing that Waugh's novels,...