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The Loved One

By Evelyn Waugh

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The Loved One

By Evelyn Waugh

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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. 
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2012-12-11
Publication Date:
2012-12-11
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
031621647X
ISBN13:
9780316216470
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
164 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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