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The Loved One

Paperback • 1951 • English

The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy

By Evelyn Waugh

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh's 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 novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician D...Show more

Science fiction: space opera
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Narrative theme: Politics

Book details

ISBN

9780141184241

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

1951

Language

English

Original title

The Loved One

Format

Paperback

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