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The Loved One
"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.
About The Loved One
"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.
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- The Loved One is by Evelyn Waugh.
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