![]() ![]() ![]() Times without number since he first came to Hollywood he had heard the name of that great necropolis on the lips of others he had read it in the local news-sheets when some more than usually illustrious body was given more than usually splendid honours or some new acquisition was made to its collected masterpieces of contemporary art. ![]() When Sir Francis dies, they leave the funeral arrangements to Dennis (“to keep him busy” and take his mind off his newly deceased housemate). ![]() At this point in time there are only a tiny handful of Englishmen in Hollywood and the Cricket Club has decided Dennis’ new position makes the rest of them look bad. I never fail to be amazed at how relatively short certain novels are once I do manage to pick one up and The Loved One is one of the shortest I’ve seen yet.Ĭlocking in at a bite-size 164 pages, The Loved One tells of Dennis Barlow, poet and pet mortician. Although I read my share of them in school, classics are by and large considered to be rather daunting. There’s something a little – okay, a lot – intimidating about the classics. I’ve finally read a Goosebumps book, sat down with one of chick-lit’s heavy hitters, and now I have an Evelyn Waugh novel under my belt. This is a year of firsts for me as far as literature goes. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet. ![]()
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