The Loved One
A Comedy, Literature, Death book. Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small...
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 embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.
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- Pages: 178 pages
- ISBN: / 9780141915
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better. Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One // Mr. Schultz, you're jealous of whispering Glades.""And why wouldn't I be seeing all that dough going on relations they've hated all their lives, while the pets who've loved them and stood by them , never asked no questions, never complained, rich or poor, sickness or health, get buried anyhow like animals? Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One // What is a "canty day", Dennis?''I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.''What is that?''People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.''Oh. Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One //
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... Fun, accurate assessments. In a preface to the book, the author says that the cemeteries and characters in the story are not based on actual places and people. While I can't comment on the people, the cemetery, (Whispering Glades) is definitely based on a real place in Burbank. Also likely is the pet cemetery, Happier Hunting Grounds, to be a caricature if the...
