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Scoop

by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966.

Format: Print Book 1999
Availability: Available at 3 Libraries 3 of 3 copies

Available (3)
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CLP - Main Library First Floor - Fiction Stacks FICTION Waugh
Location  CLP - Main Library
 
Collection  First Floor - Fiction Stacks
 
Call Number  FICTION Waugh
 
 
Dormont Public Library Fiction F WAUG
Location  Dormont Public Library
 
Collection  Fiction
 
Call Number  F WAUG
 
 
Sewickley Public Library Fiction F WAU
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Collection  Fiction
 
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Summary
In "Scoop, " surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure, " Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism an how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
Additional Information
Subjects Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 -- Fiction.
British -- Ethiopia -- Fiction.
War correspondents -- Fiction.
Mistaken identity -- Fiction.
Journalists -- Fiction.
Novelists -- Fiction.
Ethiopia -- Fiction.
War stories.
Publisher Boston :Back Bay Books,1999
Language English
Description 321 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN 0316926108
9780316926102
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