Scoop
Written in 1938 by Evelyn Waugh (pronounced war).
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Scoop is a tale of journalism and war correspondence in the late 1930’s. A young Author names Boot is bored with humdrum London life and yearns for some action ... Read review
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Advantages: A great read Disadvantages: you may laugh in public
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Scoop is a tale of journalism and war correspondence in the late 1930’s. A young Author names Boot is bored with humdrum London life and yearns for some action and approach the lovely and influential Julie Stitch (who appears in many of Waugh’ novels) to try to get him a job on the “Beast” as a war correspondent. Mean while in sleepy Boot Magna a distant cousin of the author also named ... ...ageing relatives and a host of invalid servants. This Boot already works for the “Beast” writing a nature and beauty column called “Lush Places”. Mr Slater a flunky of Lord Copper, the owner of the “Beast” mistakenly assumes that Julie Stitch wishes the author’s cousin to become a war correspondent and hastily dispatches him to a war torn African State. The story follows our hapless and naïve friend in his ...
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Advantages: Great Humour Disadvantages: Not for a baron with no sense of humour
...everything sent back is made up. A great chronicle of the decline of the upper class and the struggle needed to get on in England if you did not belong to that class.
Scoop is well written and flows well as all waugh's books do. Highly recommended. ...
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