{"product_id":"the-loved-one-paperback","title":"The Loved One - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEvelyn Waugh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Loved One\u003c\/i\u003e is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following the death of a friend, the 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--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e called \"one of the century's great masters of English prose,\" wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, \u003ci\u003eA Handful of Dust, Scoop, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Brideshead Revisited, \u003c\/i\u003e were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227330658553,"sku":"9780316216470","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YmRjYlMrVFRoVHoyeWd6V3dlRWlPUT09.webp?v=1768279501","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-loved-one-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}