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Original Title:	The Loved One
ISBN:	0141184248 (ISBN13: 9780141184241)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.evelynwaughsociety.org/index.php
Characters:	Dennis Barlow, Aimée Thanatogenos, Mr. Joyboy, Francis Hinsley, Sir Ambrose Abercrombie
Setting:	Los Angeles, California(United States) California(United States)

The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh

Paperback | Pages: 127 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 10066 Users | 940 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	The Loved One
Author	:	Evelyn Waugh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 127 pages
Published	:	November 2001 by Penguin Classics (first published February 1948)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Humor. Literature. European Literature. British Literature

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What is this thing necrophilia? According to Evelyn Waugh it is a truly megalomaniac obsession with burying the dead. And The Loved One is a cynically murderous and hilarious obituary.Our Grade A service includes several unique features. At the moment of committal, a white dove, symbolizing the deceaseds soul, is liberated over the crematorium.An authentic talent, applied properly, allows even death to become a cosmic triumphal event.Hair, skin and nails and I brief the embalmers for expression

Evelyn Waugh wrote this novel while visiting the US, shortly before WWII. While there, he became fascinated by the unsurpassed glories, of a cemetery, which is renamed here as, Whispering Glades. The book was published in 1948 and is set in Hollywood; among the British expat community. Dennis Barlow is a young poet, who is staying with Sir Francis Hinsley. Dennis is currently working at a pet cemetery, prosaically named, The Happier Hunting Ground, much to the disapproval of many fellow expats.

Macabre and funny both at the same time. Dennis Barlow, a British poet who finds himself out of the Hollywood studio that hired him takes up work at Happier Hunting Ground, a cemetery for pets. When a fellow Briton, in a similar predicament, doesnt end up taking it as well as Dennis, Dennis finds himself navigating the (rather complicated) world of the Whispering Glades, which gives human loved ones their last farewell, which he finds is as concerned with images and appearances as Hollywood

What an excellent book! It definitely kept my interest and had I not had other things to do I would have read the book in one sitting! Funny, in spots especially when Dennis Barlow is planning the funeral with Miss Thanatogenos! I nearly split a gut! I would highly recommend this book to all! Enjoy!

***1/2Before the outbreak of WW2 the quintessentially British writer Evelyn Waugh briefly visited New York and Washington, before being invited with his wife to Hollywood where a producer expressed interest in filming Brideshead Revisited. In the end that came to nothing. At the time he was glad to escape England but found the sprawling, uninspiring features of Tinseltown not really to his liking. Of all things, it was a Cemetery there that obviously left an impression on him, thus leading to

In which Waugh again proves that the satisfactions of 'realistic' fiction are pretty pale compared to the satisfactions of vicious, spiteful, hate-filled satire. The characters, plot and setting are all paper thin, but that helps the book with its main point, which is to make you laugh out loud and recognize the ugliness, stupidity and vanity of the world in general. There's nothing and nobody redeeming here. The Brits are snobs and/or morons; the Yanks are James-lite innocents with none of the