Scoop
- Auteur: Evelyn Waugh (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguis
- Omvang: 336 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Evelyn Waugh Scoop recensie, review en informatie
- “Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch.” (Christopher Hitchens, Brits-Amerikaanse journalist)
Flaptekst van de Engelse roman uit 1938 van Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh’s brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street in London.
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 Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. But for, pale, ineffectual William Boot, editor of the Daily Beast’s ‘nature notes’ column, being mistaken for a competent journalist may prove to be a fatal error.
Evelyn Waugh (28 oktober 1908, West Hampstead, London – 10 april 1966, Combe Florey, Somerset, Engeland) was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.