{"product_id":"the-loved-one-by-evelyn-waugh-minton-2523r","title":"The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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)  Editorial Reviews  Fiendishly entertaining.-New York Times  As a piece of writing it is nearly faultless; as satire it is an act of devastation.-John Woodburn, The New Republic  You'd better buy The Loved One, because I can't imagine a purchase apt to corrupt and delight you more...Never before that I can remember has a talent of such austere and classic design been applie to such monstrous vulgarities; never before have the majestic themes of love and death been so delicately perverted to absurdity....It is certainly a work of art, as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done.-Wolcott Gibbs, The New Yorker  Although the locale of The Loved One is Hollywood, it is not filmdom that Mr. Waugh takes in hand, but the American ethos....He finds a touchstone for the mass-mind of America, for the compulsion to 'package' everything, even love and death....Mr. Waugh's treatment of his macabre material is uninhibited, and wickedly funny...as sadistic, playful, and decisive as a cat's paw on a mouse.-Alice S. Morris, New York Times Book Review - From the Publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41830936117322,"sku":"2523r","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2523r_e21526f5-2608-4981-a56f-ea0f43b90f54.jpg?v=1764460602","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-loved-one-by-evelyn-waugh-minton-2523r","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}