# The Loved One

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- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2000-08-31

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Loved One

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-523-4
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_GB

### The Loved One

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-424-1
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2000-08-31
- Language: en_GB