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The Loved One

The Loved One

Waugh, Evelyn

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HumorClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 031621647X
ISBN13: 9780316216470
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Dec 11 2012
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A British poet in 1940's Hollywood becomes entangled in the bizarre, satirical world of the American funeral industry, exposing the absurdities of modern attitudes toward death and commercialization.

A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done --The New Yorker

Following the death of a friend, the 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--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art.

Evelyn Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.

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