See also: Evelyn Waugh ( 5 books reviewed)īrothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: NovelsĬolumbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. The best novels ever written about the movie industry. It is brutal, and unfortunately still timely, and quite certainly one of Niceties, like calling a corpse a 'Loved One' are intended to mask reality. Human lives-never mind human feelings-are meaningless, where semantic Waugh lays bare a Hollywood where all is pretense and illusion, where Is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you. Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard

Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the The scandal fearing Joyboy and buries her at the Hunting Grounds, so: Naturally, it all goes bung, as Barlow's various frauds are revealedĪnd Aimée kills herself. She proves unresponsive to his own poetry, Barlow woos her with passagesįrom the great poets, the works of whom she is utterly ignorant. Joyboy, the legendary embalmer at Whispering Glades. Truth about his embarrassing job, particularly since she is also smitten Of the cosmeticians there, Aimée Thanatogenos, but must hide the So Barlow heads over to Whispering Glades where he is treated to a hilariously However, when Barlow's roommate, Sir Francis Hinsley, is abruptly dismissedįrom his studio job and hangs himself, Abercrombie and his fellow CricketĬlub members depend on Barlow to arrange the burial-after all, he knowsĪbout how to dispose of animal remains, how much different can it be? Jobs that an Englishman just doesn't take. You never findĪn Englishman among the under-dogs-except in England, Tree but we are all men of responsibility.

You, and in various degrees every Englishman out here It's only the finest type of Englishman that you

Way we talk and the way we dress our monocles-they We limeys have a peculiar position to keep up, you But such a lowly job is anathema to the BritishĮxpatriate community, as Sir Ambrose Abercrombie informs him: Hunting Ground, a pet cemetery modeled after the hallowed Whispering Glades, Poet, who, having lost his movie job, is temporarily employed at The Happier Industry, lowbrow Americans and whatever other hapless targets wandered Waugh wrote this wonderfully wicked satire of the movie business, the funeral After a brief, apparently unpleasant, stay in Hollywood-he had beenĬommissioned to adapt his novel Brideshead Revisited for the screen-Evelyn

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