The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
- 作者:Evelyn,Waugh
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:1999-09-01
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0316926086
- ISBN13:9780316926089
- 裝訂:平裝 / 13.3 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm / 普通級 / 初版
In Hollywood, at Whispering Glades, a full-service funeral home for departed greats, the mononymonous Mr. Joyboy and Aimee Thanatogenos fall in love...with each other and their work. He is chief embalmer, she a crematorium cosmetician. They spend their days contentedly prepping the loved ones for a final appearance.
Into this idyllic scene comes Denis Barlow, aspiring poet and funerary colleague. But Denis is downscale, his employer the Happier Hunting Ground, a pet cemetery. Denis looks to Aimee for professional reconstruction, falls in love with her instead, and sets up a triangle that is literally more than Aimee can bear.
"A fiendishly entertaining book -- Evelyn Waugh has never written more brilliantly. Devilishly, impishly amusing." (The New York Times)