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 |
Other | Classic View |