The Loved One
by Evelyn Waugh
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Humor & Satire
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 on the Anglo-American cultural divide depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.
- Rank: #183064 in Books
- Published on: 2012-12-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
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