The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh "A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waughs cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide. 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 Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmers art. Waughs dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the centurys great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. Review "Although the locale of The Loved One is Hollywood, it is not filmdom that Mr. Waugh takes in hand, but the American ethos....He finds a touchstone for the mass-mind of America, for the compulsion to package everything, even love and death....Mr. Waughs treatment of his macabre material is uninhibited, and wickedly funny...as sadistic, playful, and decisive as a cats paw on a mouse."--Alice S. Morris, New York Times Book Review"As a piece of writing it is nearly faultless; as satire it is an act of devastation."--John Woodburn, The New Republic"Fiendishly entertaining."--New York Times"Youd better buy The Loved One, because I cant imagine a purchase apt to corrupt and delight you more...Never before that I can remember has a talent of such austere and classic design been applie to such monstrous vulgarities; never before have the majestic themes of love and death been so delicately perverted to absurdity....It is certainly a work of art, as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done."--Wolcott Gibbs, The New Yorker Review Quote "Youd better buy The Loved One , because I cant imagine a purchase apt to corrupt and delight you more...Never before that I can remember has a talent of such austere and classic design been applie to such monstrous vulgarities; never before have the majestic themes of love and death been so delicately perverted to absurdity....It is certainly a work of art, as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done."-- Wolcott Gibbs , The New Yorker Details ISBN031621647X Author Evelyn Waugh Short Title LOVED 1 Language English ISBN-10 031621647X ISBN-13 9780316216470 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 823.912 Residence US Birth 1903 Death 1966 Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-12-11 Pages 176 Imprint Back Bay Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2012-12-11 NZ Release Date 2012-12-11 US Release Date 2012-12-11 UK Release Date 2012-12-11 Publisher Little, Brown & Company Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:92129970;

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