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The Loved One
By Evelyn Waugh
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By Evelyn Waugh
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A British poet in 1940's Hollywood becomes entangled in the bizarre, satirical world of the American funeral industry, exposing the absurdities of modern attitudes toward death and commercialization.
"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" —The New Yorker
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 ga...
"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" —The New Yorker
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 ga...
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