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Following the death of a friend, British 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. 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.This is an alternate cover edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3....
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The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2000
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- Titel
- The Loved One
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Evelyn Waugh
- Verlag
- Penguin UK
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2000
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 128
- ISBN10
- 0141184248
- ISBN13
- 9780141184241
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Psychologische Thematik, Humor, Klassiker, USA, Britische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert, Tod, England, Leben, Englische Literatur, Novellen, Prag, Amerika, Satire, Psychoanalyse, Lebensstil, Spirituelle Entwicklung, Bestseller, Lebensweisheit, Sinn des Lebens, Schwarzer Humor, Hollywood, Klassizismus, Dekadenz, Beerdigungen
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1948
- Originaltitel
- The Loved One
- Bewertung
- 3,8 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Following the death of a friend, British 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. 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.This is an alternate cover edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3....