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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Scoop: A Novel About Journalists (Penguin Modern Classics)by: Evelyn Waugh  List Price: $14.45 Price: $9.81 You Save: $4.64 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780141187495 ISBN: 0141187492 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: August 28, 2003 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: 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. Product Description: 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 irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Casual racisim mars the humorOverall, I'm conflicted in my feelings for this book. On the main themes - how journalists make stories up to sell papers, how rewards and punishments are completely random with no regards to merit, and how humans are generally horrible and stupid - the book is very funny in Waugh's dryly satirical style. However, the blatant racism makes the book an uncomfortable read. The plot revolves around a reluctant British reporter sent to cover a civil war in Africa. This being Waugh, I was ... Read More Rating:  - Happy Waugh Writes Great Spoof Scoop [75]Perhaps when "Scoop" was rewritten, Waugh lived his best years - 1937-1938 - in 1937 he married Laura Herbert who gave birth to their daughter Teresa Waugh in 1938. This book resonates with British farce. People's discussions seem to always be on different wavelengths. Amid these discussions where neither side appears to listen to the other, mistaken identities arise. But, when these extremely embarrassing moments are discovered, the British aristocratic self attempts to cavalierly ... Read More Rating:  - A dry martini of a novelHeady and incredibly fun, this 1930s' look at the curious animal known as "foreign correspondent" is one hilarious read. Much of the book is tongue and cheek and a bitch-slap to the world of competitive newspapers (far more important then than now). The story centers around a hapless rural-life columnist for a London newspaper, who is mistaken for someone else and sent to Africa to report on the bloody conflict in a fictional country (which predicts, a bit, the reality of the 1960s). ... Read More Rating: - Waugh's farce about the newspaper trade and making a name for oneselfEvelyn Waugh's send-up of the newspaper business, and where in other novels he could be bitterly satirical, here he's wildly farcical and broadly comical. William Boot, a nature writer for the DAILY BEAST, ("Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" is given as an example of his "high-class style" of writing), is mistaken for the novelist John Boot and is sent to the African country of Ishmaelia. Here he encounters other journalists, many of them American, who are all looking for ... Read More Rating: - CleverOverall, a very satisfying read, but somewhat disjointed. The beginning and ending -- the two parts which take place at Boot Magna in the English countryside -- are laugh-out-loud funny. The middle section, which takes place with the protaganist, William Boot, in the mythical African nation of Ishmaelia, is more straightforward and serious. The portions of the book which chronicle Boot's relationship with Katchen felt like they were torn out of a Hemingway book, given the sparse dialog and direct emotions. ... Read More 
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