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1wcarter
Scoop, A Novel About Journalists by Evelyn Waugh 1982
You cannot help but read this delightful book with a gentle smile on your face, that sometimes becomes a broad grin. This facetious look at the foreign journalist written in 1934 is the story of an unworldly rural reporter of a Fleet Street newspaper who is accidentally sent as the foreign correspondent to a very primitive African country to cover a non-existent civil war. Just think what possibilities for confusion and incompetence this opens, and Waugh has utilised them all.
At 229 pages the book is an easy read (I read it on a 2.5 hour flight) that will keep you well entertained. There is a 7 page introduction by James Cameron, and scattered line illustrations by Quentin Blake (who has illustrated FS books since 1976). The small format (23x14.5cm.) makes it the ideal book to take traveling.
Bound in rich red cloth it has a gilt cover design (you’ll have to read the book to learn why there are cleft hockey and polo sticks on the cover) and spine titling (bottom to top). It is housed in a pale grey slipcase. The page tops are grey tinted and the endpapers are also a pale grey.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
You cannot help but read this delightful book with a gentle smile on your face, that sometimes becomes a broad grin. This facetious look at the foreign journalist written in 1934 is the story of an unworldly rural reporter of a Fleet Street newspaper who is accidentally sent as the foreign correspondent to a very primitive African country to cover a non-existent civil war. Just think what possibilities for confusion and incompetence this opens, and Waugh has utilised them all.
At 229 pages the book is an easy read (I read it on a 2.5 hour flight) that will keep you well entertained. There is a 7 page introduction by James Cameron, and scattered line illustrations by Quentin Blake (who has illustrated FS books since 1976). The small format (23x14.5cm.) makes it the ideal book to take traveling.
Bound in rich red cloth it has a gilt cover design (you’ll have to read the book to learn why there are cleft hockey and polo sticks on the cover) and spine titling (bottom to top). It is housed in a pale grey slipcase. The page tops are grey tinted and the endpapers are also a pale grey.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
2TabbyTom
>1 wcarter:
I agree with all you say about "Scoop", and the same can be said of "Black Mischief", which Folio produced in a very similar format. My opinions about Blake as an illustrator vary wildly from book to book: there are some works that I do not think he should be let loose on, but his drawings certainly complement these Waugh works beautifully.
I agree with all you say about "Scoop", and the same can be said of "Black Mischief", which Folio produced in a very similar format. My opinions about Blake as an illustrator vary wildly from book to book: there are some works that I do not think he should be let loose on, but his drawings certainly complement these Waugh works beautifully.
3LesMiserables
A top class novel, up their with A Handful of Dust. I agree with >2 TabbyTom: sometimes QB jars whilst complimentary to other texts. In this case I don't think he adds to the text.
