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The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
- United Kingdom
- English
- Stuart Boyle
- Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh. 3.76. 12,532 ratings1,270 reviews. 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.
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- Evelyn Waugh
11 de dez. de 2012 · 4.2 693 ratings. See all formats and editions. "A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide.
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- Evelyn Waugh
- $16.99
- Back Bay Books
30 de nov. de 1977 · The Loved One is an odd little story about a love triangle among people who are unusually comfortable handling dead things. Dennis, a poet/pet mortician, is not entirely forthcoming about his occupation with Aimée Thanatogenos lest she, as a beautician of human cadavers, despise him for it.
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- Evelyn Waugh
Plot Summary. The Loved One is a tale that navigates through the intricacies of love, death, and the bizarre practices surrounding the funeral industry in post-war Los Angeles. Let’s break down the main events of the story: Exposition — The novel introduces us to Dennis Barlow, a British poet who finds himself in Hollywood’s bizarre landscape.
Paperback Ebook. Retailers: Amazon Blackwells Bookshop.org Foyles Hive Waterstones WHSmith. Summary. Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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- Paperback
- Evelyn Waugh
