The Loved One
Author | : Evelyn Waugh |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781479443239 |
ISBN-13 | : 1479443239 |
Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Loved One written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.