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The Loved One

by Simon Prebble
Evelyn Waugh
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"A 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.
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 depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.
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Publisher: Hachette Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781619693913
  • File size: 97927 KB
  • Release date: July 15, 2013
  • Duration: 03:24:00

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  • ISBN: 9781619693913
  • File size: 97935 KB
  • Release date: July 15, 2013
  • Duration: 03:27:00
  • Number of parts: 3

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Classic Literature Fiction Literature

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"A 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.
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 depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.
Expand title description text
Classic Literature Fiction Literature
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Hachette Audio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781619693913
    File size: 97927 KB
    Release date: July 15, 2013
    Duration: 03:24:00

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781619693913
    File size: 97935 KB
    Release date: July 15, 2013
    Duration: 03:27:00
    Number of parts: 3

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English