Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, which chronicles the misadventures of William Boot, a blundering but well-meaning journalist who is roped into becoming a foreign correspondent after being mistaken for a distant cousin. During his time abroad, he proves to be entirely unsuited for the position, but nevertheless manages to uncover the titular ‘scoop’ through sheer force of luck in a narrative that unrelentingly satirises the role of news in modern life and the sensationalist tactics employed by the journalists of the era. Evelyn Waugh was one of the foremost English authors of the interwar period, and is chiefly remembered for his ruthless wit and irreverent satire. Scoop was his fifth novel.
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ENGLISH WRITER
Born in London in 1903.
Died in Somerset in 1966.
Notable works:
Decline and Fall (1928), novel
A Handful of Dust (1934), novel
Brideshead Revisited (1945), novel
Evelyn Waugh was an English novelist and journalist. He was educated at Lancing College, Sussex and later earned a third-class degree from Hertford College, Oxford. After working as a schoolmaster, briefly attending art school, taking carpentry lessons and attempting to drown himself only to be put off by a jellyfish, he published his first book, a biography of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in 1928, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, later that year. There followed a conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930, a second marriage in 1937, the births of seven children, journeys in Africa and South America, stints in the Royal Marines, the Commandos and the Special Service Brigade during the Second World War and the publication of 13 more novels and several works of non-fiction, before his death on Easter Sunday in 1966. Waugh is revered as one of English literature’s finest prose stylists and fiercest satirists. His greatest novels are typically both hilarious and disturbing and chronicle the chaos, disillusionment and moral ambiguity of the years between the two World Wars.
A NOVEL ABOUT JOURNALISTS
Genre: novel
Reference edition: Waugh, E. (2000) Scoop. [Ebook].