Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh
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Author: Evelyn WaughEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09
ISBN: 0316926108
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Summary: 4 Stars
"Scoop" was Evelyn Waugh's skewering of England's Fleet Street newspaper ways. Known for his wry humor and satire, Waugh presents a portrait of newspapermen who know the business too well or not well enough. Yet for all its humor, "Scoop" is somewhat of a disappointment, wandering off on tangents, with a profusion of oddities that can be difficult to follow.
William Boot lives a leisurely, if bizarre, life in the country, filling his odd hours by writing articles about animals and country life for the London paper, the Daily Beast. He is mistakenly believed to be John Courtney Boot, the famous novelist, and is pressured into the job of war correspondent for the paper. Boot is sent to Ishmaelia, a country in Africa that is about to be at war, or perhaps not. Nobody seems to know what is going on or even what side they should root for. Boot, with all his inexperience, must figure out how to be a foreign war correspondent with no acutal war going on in a country more backward than his family.
"Scoop" is a relatively quick-paced read, slowed down in the second section by the introduction to a plethora of newspapermen in Ishmaelia and all their idiosyncracies. There are genuine laugh-out-loud moments and Waugh does a commendable job in flaying the newspaper's business of selling paper no matter what; it doesn't matter if the story is true, as long as they get the scoop. The resolution is entirely fitting and very enjoyable for those readers who have followed every case of mistaken identity along the way.
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Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story.Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fictional African country of Ishmaelia to cover an expected revolution. Although he has no idea what he is doing and he can't understand the incomprehensible telegrams from his London editors, Boot eventually gets the big story.
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