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Can I read The Loved One on EtoBox?
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Loved One about?
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 holiday-and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.
Who reads The Loved One?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780316253857
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (132 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy (2013)
- The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy (1978)
- The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy (2012)
- The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy (1948)
- 20th Century Loved One: An Anglo American Tragedy (Twentieth Century Classics) (1951)
- The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy (1977)
- The Loved One (1948)
- Le Cher disparu : roman (1984)
- The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy (2017)
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