Book description
The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's
story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades
Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and
offers Waugh's memento mori. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was born in
London and educated at Oxford. He quickly established a reputation with
such social satirical novels as DECLINE AND FALL, VILE BODIES and SCOOP.
Waugh became a Catholic in 1930, and his later books display a more
serious attitude, as seen in the religious theme of BRIDESHEAD
REVISITED, a nostalgic evocation of student days at Oxford. His diaries
were published in 1976, and his letters in 1980.
