The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

Descriere The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

\nA 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. \n Following the death of a friend, the 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--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aim e Thanatogenos, a na ve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.\n

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Back Bay Books

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9780316216470

Magazine

1

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