Synopsis
William Boot, a young man who lives in genteel poverty far from the iniquities of London, is contributor of nature notes to Lord Copper's Daily Beast, a national newspaper. He is dragooned into becoming a foreign correspondent when the editors mistake him for a novelist who shares his surname, John Courtney Boot. He is sent to the fictional African state of Ishmaelia where a civil war threatens to break out. There, despite his total ineptitude, he accidentally manages to get the "scoop" of the title....
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About the Author
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom "Time" called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, "A Handful of Dust, Scoop, "and" Brideshead Revisited, " were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
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Scoop: A Novel About Journalists
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ISBN 13: 9780140004557
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Reprint. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, nicked and rubbed as with age. Creased cover. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 222 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Originally published: London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. Subjects; 1900-1999. English fiction 20th century. English fiction. War correspondents ; Fiction. Press Great Britain ; Fiction. English fiction 20th century. Journalism Great Britain ; Fiction. Journalists ; Fiction. Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 Fiction. British Ethiopia Fiction. Mistaken identity ; Fiction. Novelists ; Fiction. Ethiopia ; Fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 415359
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Reprint. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, nicked and rubbed as with age. Creased cover. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 222 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Originally published: London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. Subjects; 1900-1999. English fiction 20th century. English fiction. War correspondents ; Fiction. Press Great Britain ; Fiction. English fiction 20th century. Journalism Great Britain ; Fiction. Journalists ; Fiction. Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 Fiction. British Ethiopia Fiction. Mistaken identity ; Fiction. Novelists ; Fiction. Ethiopia ; Fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 415359
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SCOOP A Novel About Journalists
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Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1978
ISBN 10: 0140004556
ISBN 13: 9780140004557
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Peter Bentley Cover Design (illustrator). Reprint. Small crease top corner of back cover, otherwise a very nice copy without any flaws. 4.5 X 7" 222 pages. Scoop is an irreverent novel about Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news, narrated with all Evelyn Waugh's exuberant sense of satire. Lord Cooper, the newspaper magnate, prided himself on a flair for discovering ace reporters. But owing to a slight case of mistaken identity the man he picked to 'cover' the civil war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia was less than a novice at the business. Seller Inventory # 51101
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Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60138249: 1984. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 222 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. Seller Inventory # RO60138249
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