Noticia Bomba! (Paperback)

from P_S_Patrick

Like some of Waugh's other comic novels, Scoop is based loosely on Waugh's personal experiences, and amuses the reader with its clever satirisation of virtually every aspect on which the book is based. In this case, we have a story about a rural journalist, who writes on countryside matters, who ...

from PilgrimJess

This is the first Evelyn Waugh book that I have read and having now done so feel that I have been sorely missing. I mean I love PG Wodehouse so why not Waugh? The book appears at first glance to be a simple tale of mistaken identity as an obscure country gent is sent to Africa as the foreign corr...

from browner56

As he was gaining fame as a novelist, Evelyn Waugh spent time as newspaper correspondent in Africa covering the Ethiopian-Italian war. That experience was essential in forming the basic plot of Scoop, which above all else is a fierce satire of the state of journalism in Great Britain of the 1930s...

from karl.steel

Second time reading.File this under guilty pleasures. I'm, well outraged isn't the right word, made weary by the dreariness of the other reviews of this book: plot summaries, gestures towards its transhistorical narratives (or towards its capturing that peculiar moment before the Nazis invaded Po...

from Dorritt

Am slowly working my way through the Waugh canon but wish it hadn't taken me so long to get around to Scoop. Finished the book a couple of days ago and I'm still smiling over the final 15 pages. In this outing Waugh takes a break from heavy social commentary (war, politics, social mores) to take ...