--- product_id: 11032557 title: "The Loved One" price: "₩51393" currency: KRW in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.kr/products/11032557-the-loved-one store_origin: KR region: South Korea --- # The Loved One **Price:** ₩51393 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Loved One - **How much does it cost?** ₩51393 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kr](https://www.desertcart.kr/products/11032557-the-loved-one) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A British poet in 1940's Hollywood becomes entangled in the bizarre, satirical world of the American funeral industry, exposing the absurdities of modern attitudes toward death and commercialization. "A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" — The New Yorker Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Evelyn Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal. Review: The Ultimate Evelyn Waugh - I first encountered this excellent author decades ago when I read his first novella, Decline and Fall. What struck me then was not just his brilliance, wit and soaring writing skills, but his utter heartlessness towards his creations. No author I have encountered before or since does such utterly beastly things to his characters. In the Loved One, Waugh sends up multiple aspects of American mores and society in a style that somehow manages to be both outrageous and understated. At the same time, he recalls and seemingly repackages, without acknowledging it, the central character from Decline and Fall. In the earlier work, that character is Paul Pennyfeather, the more than callow public school teacher that acts as a tabula rasa for the indignities that life visits on those adrift on the seas of British education, pretension, and social prejudice. In The Loved One, it is as if Paul has been recreated, slightly older and only obliquely wiser, refitted with ultimate cynicism. The renewed character, I think, proves to be less successful in the final reel of the book (could he really be that cynical?), but otherwise it’s a grand, short romp with an author with some of the wittiest, grandest, most irreverent authorial skills of the twentieth century. A true delight. Review: OK but pretty dated - Fairly boring but I did get an English degree for some reason. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #122,158 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #892 in Fiction Satire #2,757 in Classic Literature & Fiction #6,148 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 817 Reviews | ## Images ![The Loved One - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81B0koggbIL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Ultimate Evelyn Waugh *by A***E on July 1, 2020* I first encountered this excellent author decades ago when I read his first novella, Decline and Fall. What struck me then was not just his brilliance, wit and soaring writing skills, but his utter heartlessness towards his creations. No author I have encountered before or since does such utterly beastly things to his characters. In the Loved One, Waugh sends up multiple aspects of American mores and society in a style that somehow manages to be both outrageous and understated. At the same time, he recalls and seemingly repackages, without acknowledging it, the central character from Decline and Fall. In the earlier work, that character is Paul Pennyfeather, the more than callow public school teacher that acts as a tabula rasa for the indignities that life visits on those adrift on the seas of British education, pretension, and social prejudice. In The Loved One, it is as if Paul has been recreated, slightly older and only obliquely wiser, refitted with ultimate cynicism. The renewed character, I think, proves to be less successful in the final reel of the book (could he really be that cynical?), but otherwise it’s a grand, short romp with an author with some of the wittiest, grandest, most irreverent authorial skills of the twentieth century. A true delight. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ OK but pretty dated *by B***L on November 13, 2025* Fairly boring but I did get an English degree for some reason. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Terrifically caustic observation of American (and British) ethos. *by S***N on June 29, 2023* You laugh out loud, really. It's strange that in the Waugh literary scene, this book appears to be an embarrassment. Waugh thought Americans wouldn't find it humorous, and was disappointed when it became so popular and the basis of a film. Waugh is a great writer, and he spares little at lampooning our cult culture of glorification in afterlife while our living lives are vapid and superficial. Dennis, the main character, Waugh admitted, was a self-caricature, who is a conniver and all too willing to live off of other's generosity. The portraits of Mr. Joyboy (embalmer) and Aimee Thanatogenes are unforgettable. Highly recommended. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.kr/products/11032557-the-loved-one](https://www.desertcart.kr/products/11032557-the-loved-one) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Korea* *Store origin: KR* *Last updated: 2026-06-04*