The Loved One (2015)

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The Loved One (2015)
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The Loved One (2015)

Evelyn Waugh
Edition year 2015
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Beryl Cook
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 128
Dimensions 11 × 7¼ in

Edition details

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh. Reprint. Introduced by Christopher Sykes. 8 colour illustrations by Beryl Cook. Bound in blocked cloth. 128pp. 11×7¼in.

About the book

Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a darkly comic satire set in Los Angeles, focusing on the elaborate American funeral industry. The story follows Dennis Barlow, an Englishman who becomes involved with Aimee Thanatogenos, an employee at the luxurious Whispering Glades cemetery. Through their relationship and the bizarre world surrounding them, Waugh mocks commercialised grief, sentimentality and the artificiality of modern culture. An Englishman becomes involved with the extravagant American funeral industry and a young woman whose life is shaped by its bizarre conventions.

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