The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1948 • Little Brown & Co.

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh 

U.S. FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1948] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY

Antique hardcover with dust jacket in very good reading condition.

DJ is in tact with tanning and worn / chipped edges. Now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself has some tanning / a few spots of discoloration to boards and a few faint water stains.

Following the death of a friend, British 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. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art...

A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.