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
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