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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 Aimee Thanatogenos, a naive 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.
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The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
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- Released
- 1990
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Loved One
- Subtitle
- An Anglo-American Tragedy
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Evelyn Waugh
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 126
- ISBN10
- 0140182497
- ISBN13
- 9780140182491
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Psychological Topics, Humor, Classics, USA, 20th century, British Literature, Death, England, Life, English Literature, Novellas, Prague, America, Spiritual Development, Satire, Psychoanalysis, Lifestyle, Bestsellers, Wisdom of Life, Searching for the meaning of life, Hollywood, Dark Humor, Classicism, Decadence, Funerals
- First published
- 1948
- Original title
- The Loved One
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- 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 Aimee Thanatogenos, a naive 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.