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Title: Waugh in Abyssinia
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780807132517
ISBN: 9780807132517
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Release Date: 05/30/2007
Description: Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible -- they swear by it. But few readers are acquainted with Waugh's memoir of his stint as a London Daily Mail correspondent in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) during the Italian invasion in the 1930s. Waugh in Abyssinia is an entertaining account by a cantankerous and unenthusiastic war reporter that ""provides a fascinating short history of Mussolini's imperial adventure as well as a wickedly witty preview of the characters and follies that figure into Waugh's famous satire."" In the forward, veteran foreign correspondent John Maxwell Hamilton explores in how Waugh ended up in Abyssinia, which real-life events were fictionalised in Scoop, and how this memoir fits into Waugh's overall literary career, which includes the classic Brideshead Revisited. As Hamilton explains, Waugh was the right man (a misfit), in the right place (a largely unknown country that lent itself to farcical imagination), at the right time (when the correspondents themselves were more interesting than the scraps of news they could get.) The result, Waugh in Abyssinia, is a memoir like no other.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 133mm
Item Weight: 333g
Author: Evelyn Waugh, John Maxwell Hamilton
Genre: History
Book Series: From Our Own Correspondent
Release Year: 2007

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