The Loved One. Evelyn Waugh

Аннотация:

Following the death of a friend, British 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. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art…<P> A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, «The Loved One» depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal.