The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
Category: Classic
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Tags: Classic, Humor, Adults, Contemporary
Publisher: Hachette Audio Release date: July 15, 2013 Duration: 03:24:00, 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 holidayand Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aime Thanatogenos, a nave Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmers art. Waughs dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal., .. His misanthropy notwithstanding, Waugh is so adept at punchy openings, deadpan zingers and wickedly ironic situations, and so graceful is his use of languagehe can also produce a work like Bridshead Revisited and a satirical trilogy of World War II. An eminently readable comedy of modern war
