The Loved One
by:
Evelyn Waugh (author)
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141184241 (0141184248)
Publish date: May 1st 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 127
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Death
I finally made it all the way through one of Waugh's books. Granted, it's only a novella, but at least I finished it. I've tried to read a couple of his other novels and lost interest early on. They consist of skillful but very dry writing punctuated by infrequent guffaw-worthy moments. The Loved On...
Waugh has the dry, underhanded wit that I adore, the sly sort of humor that can be easily missed by the distracted or the terminally stupid. And as morbid as it may be, the scene surrounding the preparations for the Loved One's final arrangements had me laughing out loud through the duration, a per...
Scathing, vicious, bitterly hilarious, painfully accurate: The Loved One skewers the "death industry", American Anglophiles, the cult of celebrity, conformity, etc. etc. etc. If you like a good bitchy read, this is it.
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