Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets\' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park.
Waugh\'s dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.".
Joyboy, a master of the embalmer\'s art.
Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday-and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimee Thanatogenos, a naive Californian corpse beautician, and Mr.
Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets\' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park
