Cover art for The Loved One
Published
Penguin Modern Classics, December 2000
ISBN
9780141184241
Format
Softcover, 160 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 0.9cm

The Loved One An Anglo-American Tragedy by

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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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