num_pages: 127
description: 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...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.This is an alternate cover edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3....
language: English
title: The Loved One
titlecomplete: The Loved One
characters: Aimée Thanatogenos, Francis Hinsley, Mr. Joyboy, Dennis Barlow, Sir Ambrose Abercrombie
genres: 20th Century, Death, Novels, Literature, English Literature, Comedy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 12143
places: Los Angeles, California, California
publisher: Penguin Classic