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The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh

Paperback | Pages: 127 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 10066 Users | 940 Reviews

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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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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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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)

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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

The last couple of pages of this book made me chuckle. It's not everyday that you read a book about a cosmetician for the dead, an embalmer, and a pet cemetery employee with a poetic bent. The Hollywood Forever cemetery holds new meaning for me now.

Brief, satirical and rather funny novel about the American funeral industry. Waugh visited California in 1947; he didn't like it, finding the tendency of the "lower orders" to ask personal questions rather irritating. Waugh was a snob and it shows. It is funny in parts. The love triangle is very amusing; this isn't the intense YA/vampire type. It involves Aimee Thanatogenos, who works at Whispering Glades, a funeral emporium. She does cosmetic work on the corpses. One of her beaus is the

The copy I had of this was used, and had underlines where the previous reader would note in the margin "funny," and "ha." This reader stopped doing this by the third or fourth page, either because s/he no longer found it funny, or it became absurd to underline all passages and mark them as "ha." I think most readers will fall into either of these categories. I am in "ha."

You heard of the phrase shooting fish in a barrel thats what Evelyn Waugh does here. There are two barrels, but both are of solid oak and the fish are glittery and plump so there is still a lot of fun to be had. The story I get from Wikipedia which got it from his biographer is that Hollywood wanted to film Brideshead and Waugh didnt want them to because he didnt think Americans understood the theological implications of Brideshead thats some classic grumpiness, you have to sneakingly admire

I found this book slightly disturbing...it seemed to me that the point being made was that a life 'lived well' is often hidden behind a veil of conformity - that veil often being more important than happiness. My fist reading of Waugh, but not my last.

Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. I had seen the 1965 movie of the same name by director Tony Richardson and Richardson seems to have followed the script quite well.The Loved One is full of sly, macabre humour, and some of the funniest scenes occur when Aimee goes home with Mr. Joyboy to meet his mothera miserable woman whose bosom companion is a naked parrot named Sambo. The Loved One is one of the oddest novels in the English