![]() ![]() ![]() Waugh's treatment of his macabre material is uninhibited, and wickedly funny.as sadistic, playful, and decisive as a cat's paw on a mouse."- Alice S. ![]() Waugh takes in hand, but the American ethos.He finds a touchstone for the mass-mind of America, for the compulsion to 'package' everything, even love and death.Mr. "Although the locale of The Loved One is Hollywood, it is not filmdom that Mr. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman in southern California who observes the clash between English and American cultures. "You'd better buy The Loved One, because I can't imagine a purchase apt to corrupt and delight you more.Never before that I can remember has a talent of such austere and classic design been applie to such monstrous vulgarities never before have the majestic themes of love and death been so delicately perverted to absurdity.It is certainly a work of art, as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done."- Wolcott Gibbs, The New Yorker The Loved One, in full The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. "As a piece of writing it is nearly faultless as satire it is an act of devastation."- John Woodburn, The New Republic "Fiendishly entertaining."- New York Times ![]()
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