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Scoop: A Novel About Journalists

by Evelyn Waugh

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Penguin Books Ltd (2000), Paperback, 240 pages

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Collections:Your libraryRating:****1/2
Tags:fiction, 20th century ad, 1930s, england, london, africa, humour, satire, journalism, war
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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another.Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, Scoop is a brilliantly irreverentsatire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.
  edella | Jul 14, 2009 |
  benskinner | Jul 2, 2009 |
The "Catch-22" of journalism. Sharp and funny. ( )
  TheBentley | Jun 30, 2009 |
Hilarious satire of journalism. ( )
  xine2009 | Jun 13, 2009 |
A hilarious, satiric romp from London to the countryside to "Ishmaelia" in East Africa. Waugh's characters, use of language, and just plain good storytelling make this a great book! ( )
  hemlokgang | Apr 26, 2009 |
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For Laura
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While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters."
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Why, once Jakes went out to cover a revolution in one of the Balkan capitals. He overslept in his carriage, woke up at the wrong station, didn't know any different, got out, went straight to a hotel, and cabled off a thousand-word story about barricades in the streets, flaming churches, machine guns answering the rattle of his typewriter as he wrote, a dead child, like a broken doll, spreadeagled in the deserted roadway before his window - you know.
There was something un-English and not quite right about 'the country', with its solitude and self-sufficiency, its bloody recreations, its darkness and silence and sudden, inexplicable noises; the kind of place where you never know from one minute to the next that you may not be tossed by a bull or pitchforked by a yokel or rolled over and broken up by a pack of hounds.
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Original publication date1938
People/CharactersLord Copper, John Courteney Boot, William Boot, Mr Salter, Uncle Theodore, Dr Benito (show all 11)
Important placesRepublic of Ishmaelia, East Africa, Fleet Street, London, UK
Awards and honorsThe Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Board's List, 75), The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003), Guardian 1000 (Comedy)
DedicationFor Laura
First wordsWhile still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters."
QuotationsWhy, once Jakes went out to cover a revolution in one of the Balkan capitals. He overslept in his carriage, woke up at the wrong station, didn't know any different, got out, went straight to a hotel, and cabled off a thousand... (show all)
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0141184027, Paperback)

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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