1933 Scoop: A Novel About Journalists

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

First edition, in the publisher's original patterned cloth binding.

A satire of sensationalist journalism from foreign correspondents, following a young William Boot, loosely based on Waugh's fellow reporter at the Daily Mail, William Deedes. Boot lives in genteel poverty, contributes to the Daily Beast, a national daily newspaper, and is strong-armed into becoming a foreign correspondent when the editors mistake him for fashionable novelist John Courteney Boot.

Written by Evelyn Waugh, an English novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist, and book reviewer known for his early satires Decline and Fall, and A Handful of Dust.