The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy is a short satirical novel published in 1948 by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.

In The Loved One, Waugh takes on L.A. British neocolonial snobbery in post-war Southern California, set in a Disneyesque funeral home (actually a "memorial park") and a much less classy pet cemetery ("The Happier Hunting Ground"): how much better can life be?

A satirical look at the funeral business in Los Angeles, it is based on Evelyn Waugh 's 1948 short novel The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, though the screenplay by noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern and British author Christopher Isherwood also incorporates elements from Jessica Mitford 's 1963 nonfiction book The American ...

Title: The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy. Author: Waugh, Evelyn [Arthur Evelyn St John] (1903-1966) Date of first publication: 1965 [this version, with new preface]; 1948 [original version] Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Chapman & Hall, 1969 [second printing of the 1965 version] Date first posted: 22 May 2017

Published in 1948, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy by English writer Evelyn Waugh is a short satirical novel that lampoons both the Los Angeles funeral industry and the Hollywood film business. British expatriates and Americans clash in this morbid but merry tale of smiling corpses and lavish pet funerals.

Dec 11, 2012 · "A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide.

The Loved One, satiric novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1948. The novel relates the experiences of a young Englishman in southern California who observes the clash between English and American cultures.

When The Loved One first appeared, in a single issue of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine early in 1948, there was a distinct feeling of relief among many