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The Loved One

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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  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 127
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-118424-1
  • EAN
  • 9780141184241
  • Characters
  • Dennis Barlow, Aimée Thanatogenos, Mr. Joyboy, Francis Hinsley, Sir Ambrose Abercrombie
  • Settings
  • Los Angeles, California, California
  • Genres
  • fiction, classics, humor, literature, novels, death, comedy
  • Release date
  • 2001