William boot from scoop7/1/2023 ![]() However, Salter, the foreign editor, gets his Boots mixed up and sends William to Ishmaelia. John Boot was a successful novelist who had become a foreign correspondent to escape from an unhappy affair. ![]() In fact, Lord Cooper, the megalomaniac proprietor of the Daily Beast, had intended to hire John Boot, on the advice of the wife of a cabinet minister. The hero is William Boot, the rural correspondent for the Daily Beast, inadvertently sent to cover the civil war in the African country of Ishmaelia. Waugh has a wonderful time skewering the journalists as immoral, cynical, drunken crooks. Waugh subtitled this novel A novel about journalists and it is based in part on his experiences as a correspondent for the Daily Mail in Abyssinia. ![]() Home » England » Evelyn Waugh » Scoop Evelyn Waugh: Scoop ![]()
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