The Loved One
of Evelyn Waugh
Description
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art...A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.This is an alternate cover edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3....
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 127 pages
- Publisher Penguin Classics
- Publication Date November 2001
- First Publication 02/28/48
- Language English
- ISBN 9780141184241
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Los Angeles, California (United States)', 'California (United States)']
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