The Loved One - Paperback
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The Loved One - Paperback
$17.99
by Evelyn Waugh (Author)
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.Author Biography
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
Number of Pages: 176
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: December 11, 2012
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