The Loved One


Author
Evelyn Waugh
ISBN
0-14-118424-8
Publisher
Penguin books
Date Published
2000
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. A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American divide, ‘The Loved One’ depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal.

Cover illustration by Quentin Blake.
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