The Loved One
by:
Evelyn Waugh (author)
Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.
Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316216487 (0316216488)
Publish date: December 11th 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 176
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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