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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• Author
• Evelyn Waugh

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 127

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• 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