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The Loved One

By Evelyn Waugh

Book information

Publisher
Back Bay Books
Year
2012
ISBN
031621647X, 9780316216470
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (1890290 bytes)
Pages
176\0
Time added
2017-10-12 15:47:46
Satire;Humor;Humor & Entertainment;Classics;Litera

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 Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve 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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