![]() ![]() 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. 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. The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles. "Although the locale of The Loved One is Hollywood, it is not filmdom that Mr. ![]() "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 As a lampoon on the mortuary practices of Southern California, it is a coruscating tour de force. "As a piece of writing it is nearly faultless as satire it is an act of devastation."- John Woodburn, The New Republic The Loved One (1948) is one of Waughs most savagely amusing books. "Fiendishly entertaining."- New York Times ![]()
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