The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh [TRADE PAPERBACK / 1999]

The Loved One : An Anglo-American Tragedy by Evelyn Waugh

TRADE PAPERBACK [1999] BACK BAY BOOKS / LITTLE BROWN & CO. 

Cute trade paperback printing w/ smooth matte cover.  Book is like new.  *nameplate of former owner on inside of cover. 

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.