The Loved One

by EvelynWaugh (Author), Minton (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $5.50

  Described by the author as a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high-living of a brief visit to Hollywood, The Loved One is an outrageously comic novel of the commericalization of death itself. Mr. Joyboy, the ultimate embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet named Dennis Barlow. This bizarre triangle is played out against an ironic and macabre backdrop: a full-service funeral home for Hollywood's departed greats called Whispering Glades, and a pet cemetery, Happier Hunting Ground - both final resting places for deceased loved ones.

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.74

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $11.47

  The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.