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Best known to the public in its hilarious movie version featuring Jonathan Winters and Rod Steiger, among others. The movie perfectly sustained the tongue-in-cheek humor and odd vibe of Waugh's wicked and merciless text. THE LOVED ONE is a short, satirical novel about the funeral business in Los Angeles and young love and ambition in the mortuary.
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The prolific Waugh--an English novelist and satirist perhaps best known for Brideshead Revisited--described this slim, vicious comedy as "a little nightmare produced by the unaccustomed high living of a brief visit to Hollywood." The setting is the L.A. funeral industry, where Whispering Glades provides deluxe service to deceased stars and their families, and the Happier Hunting Ground does the same for dead pets. (At Whispering Glades, staff must refer to the corpses only as "Loved Ones.") The industry provides a perfect foil for Waugh's deadpan wit--and an apt metaphor for the movie business.
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- PublisherLittle, Brown & Co.
- Publication date1948
- ISBN 10 041345990X
- ISBN 13 9780413459909
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages128
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Hardback. The Loved One is a short, satirical novel by novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry. 1979, Reprint. An ex-library copy in very good condition. The d/w is near fine. Seller Inventory # 25413360
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