The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: dj clipped within mylar.
In the sun-drenched, death-obsessed world of Hollywood, California, a young British poet named Dennis Barlow stumbles into the grotesque pageantry of the American funeral industry, igniting a darkly comic chain of events that skewers cultural pretension, romantic delusion, and the commodification of death itself. Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy chronicles Dennis's ill-fated romance with Aimée Thanatogenos, a beautician at the lavish pet cemetery Whispering Glades, as he navigates a world where grief is packaged, priced, and perfumed into something altogether unrecognisable. A savage satire of both American consumer culture and the brittle expatriate British community adrift in Los Angeles, the novel presents Waugh at his most wickedly precise — each sentence a scalpel, each character a perfectly mounted specimen of human folly. Drawing on his own visit to Hollywood in 1947, Waugh illustrates with forensic wit how civilization papers over its most primal anxieties, and how love and death, when filtered through commerce and vanity, become indistinguishable. Stuart Boyle's illustrations in this Chapman & Hall edition add a further layer of macabre delight, rendering Waugh's vision with an appropriately theatrical flourish — leaving the reader to wonder whether to laugh, to mourn, or to do both at once.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1948, Chapman & Hall
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: dj clipped within mylar.
In the sun-drenched, death-obsessed world of Hollywood, California, a young British poet named Dennis Barlow stumbles into the grotesque pageantry of the American funeral industry, igniting a darkly comic chain of events that skewers cultural pretension, romantic delusion, and the commodification of death itself. Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy chronicles Dennis's ill-fated romance with Aimée Thanatogenos, a beautician at the lavish pet cemetery Whispering Glades, as he navigates a world where grief is packaged, priced, and perfumed into something altogether unrecognisable. A savage satire of both American consumer culture and the brittle expatriate British community adrift in Los Angeles, the novel presents Waugh at his most wickedly precise — each sentence a scalpel, each character a perfectly mounted specimen of human folly. Drawing on his own visit to Hollywood in 1947, Waugh illustrates with forensic wit how civilization papers over its most primal anxieties, and how love and death, when filtered through commerce and vanity, become indistinguishable. Stuart Boyle's illustrations in this Chapman & Hall edition add a further layer of macabre delight, rendering Waugh's vision with an appropriately theatrical flourish — leaving the reader to wonder whether to laugh, to mourn, or to do both at once.