PMC Loved One An Anglo-American Tragedy

Name: PMC Loved One
Author: Evelyn Waugh

Auteur: Evelyn Waugh

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Evelyn Waugh Minton

Engels
Paperback
9780141184241
31 augustus 2000
126 pagina's

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Evelyn Waugh

"Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ˈɑːrθər ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən wɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–61). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.

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Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.

Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. Following the death of a friend, poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into 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.

Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, followed in 1955 and 1961.

If you enjoyed The Loved One, you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'The master of black comedy'
Sunday Times

'One of the funniest and most significant books of the century'
Alice Thomas Ellis, Daily Telegraph

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 augustus 2000
Aantal pagina's: 126
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Evelyn Waugh
Tweede Auteur: Minton
Hoofdredacteur: Amy Laurens
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Classics

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Editie: New ed
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 128 mm
Product hoogte: 7 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 73 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 9 mm
Verpakking lengte: 340 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 185 g

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