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The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh

Paperback (11 Dec 2012)

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"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide.

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

Book information

ISBN:	9780316216470
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Imprint:	Back Bay Books
Pub date:	11 Dec 2012
Language:	English
Number of pages:	176
Weight:	159g
Height:	208mm
Width:	137mm
Spine width:	15mm