![]() ![]() 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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