![]() ![]() ![]() What only the war correspondents present at the time knew was that Scoop was actually a piece of straight reportage, thinly disguised as a novel to protect the author from libel actions. ![]() ’s irreverent novel of Fleet Street and the hectic pursuit of hot news in “Ishmaelia” by the newly appointed war correspondent William Boot, was published in 1938, it was hailed as a “brilliant parody” of his experiences in Abyssinia.because Philip Knightley, in The First Casualty had raved about it as the best kind of satire: that what Waugh writes about in Scoop actually happened, exactly as in the book, with only the names changed.It’s likely I didn’t understand the humor certainly, the humor in Scoop Sometimes that works, but for me at least, A Handful of Dust The writing was good, but the plot meandered about pointlessly and didn’t really go anywhere. several months ago, and found it mostly unimpressive. ![]()
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