Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
"Although the locale of The Loved One is Hollywood, it is not
filmdom that Mr. 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. 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. Morris, New York Times Book Review
"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
"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
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