LOVED ONE,THE - Penguin Modern Classics

A riotous caper in the graveyards of southern California. Southern California, as readers of Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death will know, is unique in the splendid elaboration of its graveyards and funeral customs. Set against a background of embalming-rooms, crematoria and the unforgettable Whispering Glades Memorial Park, this book is as ludicrous as Decline and Fall, as incisively shocking as Vile Bodies, and