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Following the death of a friend, British 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. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art...A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.
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The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
- Language
- Released
- 1970
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- Damaged
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- Title
- The Loved One
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Evelyn Waugh
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1970
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 0140008233
- ISBN13
- 9780140008234
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Psychological Topics, Humor, Classics, USA, 20th century, British Literature, Death, England, Life, English Literature, Novellas, Prague, America, Satire, Spiritual Development, Psychoanalysis, Lifestyle, Wisdom of Life, Bestsellers, Searching for the meaning of life, Dark Humor, Hollywood, Classicism, Decadence, Funerals
- First published
- 1948
- Original title
- The Loved One
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Following the death of a friend, British 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. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art...A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.