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Title
The loved one
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 (author)
Poole, Adrian (editor)
Language
English (eng)
Content
text (txt)
Summary
"Early in 1947 Waugh and his wife made their way across an ocean and a continent to Southern California. It was an excursion into unfamiliar territory. The author was intrigued by the manners of the natives in ways that lend the ensuing novel, The Loved One, a superficial affinity with his travel writings. It even gestures towards being a studious work of anthropology. Waugh was particularly 'obsessed' (his own word) with the funeral rites represented by Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, and with their relation to the dreams of eternal youth promoted by the Hollywood film industry. The resulting story is one of Waugh's funniest, yet it harbours an underlying gravity about the way the world (or at least the West) was going in the immediate aftermath of global war"-- Provided by publisher
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Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 The loved one
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The loved one