The Loved One

副标题: An Anglo-American Tragedy

ISBN: 9780140008234

出版社: Penguin Books

出版年: 31 Aug 2000

页数: 127

定价: GBP 7.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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 na?ve 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.