Loved One by Evelyn Waugh, Minton
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(Paperback - Revised)
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- ISBN: 0316926086
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
- Pub. Date: November 1977
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Comments from the Seller: paperback 1977 reprint. 164pp. paperback: Very Good+ [text is lightly age browned; else VG+] English writer Evelyn Waugh's (1903-66) comic novel about the commercialization of death in California, originally published in 1948.
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Synopsis
In The Loved One, Waugh takes an acerbic look at Hollywood's way of life and the American way of death. His hero, British expatriate Dennis Barlow, is an aspiring poet who composes by day and works by night at the Happier Hunting Ground, a local pet cemetery. By chance he is called on to arrange a funeral for a fellow Brit (a victim of the movie industry) at the resplendent Whispering Glades Cemetery, where he meets Aimee Thanatogenos, the beautiful junior cosmetician, and Mr. Joyboy, the senior mrotician, and the plots shifts into hilarious high gear.
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The Loved Oneby jadorelire27
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09/02/2009: The Loved One is an overall good book. The characters are very well developed and the plot runs very smoothly. Waugh leaves no unanswered questions at the end of the novel.
I don't suggested that you just read this book on a whim. The storyline is pretty heavy and very condemning of human behaviors. Unless you enjoy being reprimanded, don't start this book lightly!I Also Recommend: Dracula, Little Women (Barnes & Noble Classics Series).
Evelyn Waugh The Loved Oneby escapee
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01/24/2009: Having read Handful of Dust and The Loved One, I am now a huge fan of Evelyn Waugh. He brings his characters to life and so far they have allowed us to peep, like voyeurs, into the private lives of the privileged British classes. And the hero of his books are like outsiders to this class structure, yet are embraced by it because that is really where they belong even though they don't really seem to fit in. At least, that is my interpretaion, for what it is worth, and I can't wait to read some more of his works.
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