The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy / Evelyn Waugh.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Back Bay Books, 1999Description: 164 p. : port. ; 20 cmISBN: 0316926086 (pbk.); 9780316926089 (pbk.)Subject(s): Motion picture industry -- Fiction | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Satire.DDC classification: 823/.912 LOC classification: PR6045.A97 | L68 1999bSummary: "Depicting romance in a mortuary could be gruesome but the author succeeds both in poking satirical fun at the maudlin pretentiousness of the funeral industry and in delighting the reader with a hilarious love story." Shapiro. Fic for Youth. 3d ed. *** "Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet."
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"Depicting romance in a mortuary could be gruesome but the author succeeds both in poking satirical fun at the maudlin pretentiousness of the funeral industry and in delighting the reader with a hilarious love story." Shapiro. Fic for Youth. 3d ed. *** "Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet."
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