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The Loved One: Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One: Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh wrote in his diary in 1947: 'I have found a deep mine of literary gold in the cemetery of Forest Lawn and the work of morticians and intend to get to work immediately.' And he did.
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, Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art and Mr Starker, grief counselor. It's a dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, depicting a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.
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, Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art and Mr Starker, grief counselor. It's a dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, depicting a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.
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Large paperback; no spine creases; light foxing on block otherwise no condition issues to describe, Modern LiteratureShare
