Scoop: A Novel About Journalists - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140004556 ISBN 13: 9780140004557

Publisher: Penguin, 1973

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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140004556
• ISBN 13: 9780140004557
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 224