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...Loved One is by no means the subtle and cold-blooded rage at the perversion of death and love which some subtle and raging people suppose it to be. It is Evelyn Waugh caught between laughter and vomiting. The story of the patriotic pretensions and fussy snobbishness of the British film colony is grade A Waugh. Less artful is the travelogue of the intricate inanities of Whispering Glades, from the voice of a nightingale piped through the grounds and mortuary buildings to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, complete with nine rows of beans and beeless beehives with electric buzzers (burial...
Last week Novelist Waugh was tickling toes and cutting throats again. The Loved One, his first novel published in the U.S. since Brideshead, was in the eager hands of U.S. readers, most of whom did not know whether to gasp, hoot or holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist...
...Book. Last year Metro-Goldwyn Mayer offered Waugh $150,000 for the film rights to Brideshead. It was a situation worthy of a Waugh novel. It is explained, according to Waugh, by the fact that none of the top studio brass had ever read the book. When Waugh demanded "full Molotov veto rights" over the script, the deal fell through...
...Waugh's Hollywood trip was not wasted. He was fascinated by the ritual for disguising death which is big business in Southern California. Waugh spent every day that he could get away prying into the fatuous, sumptuous necropolis of Forest Lawn. The result was The Loved...
...first published in Horizon. Editor Cyril Connolly devoted the entire February issue of the highbrow British literary monthly to Waugh's short novel. This smart devotion paid off. Horizon for February was sold out in a week...