The Loved One
(Sprache: Englisch)
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, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a...
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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, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimee.
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Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order.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, 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) war nach dem Studium (Geschichte und Kunst in Oxford und London) als Lehrer und Journalist tätig und unternahm ausgedehnte Reisen in Europa, im Nahen Osten und in Amerika. 1930 konvertierte er zum Katholizismus.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Evelyn Waugh
- 2011, 128 Seiten, Maße: 19,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141193492
- ISBN-13: 9780141193496
Sprache:
Englisch
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