num_pages: 164
description: A riotous caper in the graveyards of southern California.Southern California, as readers of Jessica Mitford's "The American Way of Death" will know, is unique in the splendid elaboration of its graveyards and funeral customs.Set against a background of embalming rooms and crematoria and the unforgettable Whispering Glades Memorial Park, "The Loved One" is as ludicrous as "Decline and Fall", as incisively shocking as "Vile Bodies" and - underneath the laughs - as moving as death itself.A triumph of barbed flippancy.
language: English
title: The Loved One:  An Anglo-American Tragedy
titlecomplete: The Loved One:  An Anglo-American Tragedy
characters: Francis Hinsley, Aimée Thanatogenos, Sir Ambrose Abercrombie, Mr. Joyboy, Dennis Barlow
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, English Literature, Comedy, Death, Fiction, Humor, British Literature
ratings_count: 12143
places: California, Los Angeles, California
publisher: Back Bay Books