'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...'
Check the pictures carefully, they're part of the description, too.
- 164 pages
- Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York
- Dated 1948.
- Hardback
- No dustjacket
- Green cover with urn image.
- 140mm x 200mm format, approx.
- A very good reading and reference copy
- Binding intact
- No creases
- Minimal wear to cover.
- Pages age yellowed, light foxing to some pages, but, generally in very good condition, and few signs of light reading / shelf and storage wear.
- One small ink notation inside, original owners name, dated 1950.
- Pictures uploaded, various views. No library / 'stock' photos used, I've actually got the item, and what you see is what you get...
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