Paperback Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping Monday Through Saturday! - Safe and Secure! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: 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 and crematoria and the unforgettable Whispering Glades Memorial Park, "The Loved One" is as ludicrous as "Decline and Fall", as incisively shocking as "Vile Bodies" and - underneath the laughs - as moving as death itself. A triumph of barbed flippancy.