Subtitled An AngloAmerican Tragedy, Evelyn Waughs The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood, published in Penguin Modern Classics.The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novels story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waughs memento mori. Following the death of a friend, poet and pets mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, Americanstyle, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aime, the nave Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmers art...A dark and savage satire on the AngloAmerican cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal.Evelyn Waugh (190366) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of The Sword of Honour...

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