If you loved "The Loved One", here's a scoop: you'll like his novel "Scoop", too
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Lifetime Reading Plan: The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh  Jan 18, 2011 ... In short, Aimee is herself "the loved one" of both Mr. Joyboy and Dennis. ... Perhaps best known for his novel Brideshead Revisited , Waugh ... Good timing, too -- I read this just a fortnight ago: ... Can't wait to hear what you think of Scoop. ... I think those are the ones I'd like to buy, if I get around to Waugh.
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Scoop by Evelyn Waugh  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  If you haven't read any Evelyn Waugh books recently (or ever), it's not too late .... as represented by CNN Domestic vs Fox News in the US,TF1 vs M6 here in France. ... Waugh however basically believed in and loved England, so his barbs were ... This short novel is an easy read, and will inspire, if not outright laughter, a nu...
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Review: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh | Amy Reads  Apr 20, 2010 ... In this book Waugh also discusses the issue of emigration and nationalities. ... In Africa, if a white man is disgracing himself and letting down his ... We haven't any such rights here, unfortunately. ... I will be trying Scoop in the not too distant future. ... If you enjoyed The Loved One you will surely love Scoop.
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How Evelyn Waugh's life shaped his work | Books | The Guardian  Oct 24, 2003 ... Coming hard on the break-up of his first marriage, the novel had been glibly ... Scoop best illustrates both the bizarre nature of Waugh's dented valuables, and the ... "Would I be welcome if I came to you for weekend Evelyn Waugh". .... of Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold .
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The 100 best novels: No 60  Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938 ...  Nov 10, 2014 ... Evelyn Waugh: 'Scoop is a kind of farewell to his beginnings as a ... William Boot, an innocent abroad, like many of his protagonists. ... Decline and Fall (1928); A Handful of Dust (1934); The Loved One (1948). ... Click here to buy it for 7.99 ... If you agree, why not support us? ..... So they chimed in too.
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Dorothy Parker's Novel to be thrown with Great Force - Straight ...  In fact, her column is passed off in a side remark in one sentence. The book by Robert E. Drennan is The Algonquin Wits, which, as I said in the other ... And the review of The Cardinal's Mistress in the book Constant Reader...
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Humboldt's Gift - The New York Times  Aug 14, 1975 ... here's the most extraordinary, unheard of poetry buried in America, but none of ... Citrine reminds me of the author's "Henderson the Rain King. ... The Humboldt of the title, who is too plainly modeled after the late Delmore Schwartz not to be acknowledged, is the most solid inspiration, the "lion" of this book.
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Ford Madox Hueffer -- Joseph Conrad: A Pesonal Remembrance  For, according to our view of the thing, a novel should be the biography of a man .... He was none of these except on the surface, to his grocer; a man has to have a .... of "Lord Jim" contemplating the hero of that wonderful work and saying within .... quadruped, between fields of wheat that small winds ruffled into cat's-paws.
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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 66, Donald Barthelme  Do you think your own biography would clarify the stories and novels? ... accompanies the title character through a rather depressing New York day. ..... The Dead Father, which aren't particularly reminiscent of Beckett and preceded them. .... Snow White is strictly speaking a novella, and The Dead Father isn't terribly long.
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The Loved One - Wikipedia  The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short, satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in ... For the film based on this novel, see The Loved One (film). For the song, see The Loved One .... Mr. Joyboy, senior mortician at Whispering Glades. His trademark is a beaming smile...
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Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th Precinct Mysteries ...  Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Precinct and over one million other books are ..... Two murders are investigated and near the end of the book the trail of both .... The inside joke is, of course, that the screenwriter was Ed McBain, writing under his real name, Evan Hunter ... The hooker dies by far nastier and more painful means.
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Moo by Jane Smiley  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the ... on GR as set on a "midwestern agricultural institution (aka "cow college")". ..... It's very satirical, above the fray, ironic--you just never come to care about any of ..... Between reading Moo and DeLillo's White Noise, I feel like I just went back to college!
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SparkNotes: A Tale of Two Cities: Book the Second: The Golden ...  One morning outside Tellson's Bank, Jerry Cruncher sees a funeral pass by. ... In reality, he goes to dig up Cly's body in order to sell it to scientists. ... The next day, he asks his father the definition of a Resurrection-Manthe term ... In prison, he passed much time imagining what sort of person Lucie would grow up to be.
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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb  Reviews, Discussion ...  To ask other readers questions about I Know This Much Is True, please sign up. .... care if it is an oprah book. i loved "she's come undone," but this book is leagues better. .... Lamb's tale of one man dealing with his twin brother's schizophrenia is .... A page-turner--have to give it that--but by the 500th page (there are 900+) I...
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Ironweed by William Kennedy  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs ...  Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. ..... The first chapter is a compelling introduction to a character that begs for your ..... I always know what's next, the mix of authors and material is varied, and I will ... In it, Kennedy tells the story of a bum who was once a well liked ball-player...
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The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1) by Jack Higgins ...  I do not understand how I missed this book - the first time around - 19. ... Higgins fleshes this out with fiction and it's very convincing - it could have ..... A suspenseful and clever World War II adventure tale. .... So, I've never read a Jack Higgins novel before, which is amazing because the guy is a ....   1975 ...more.
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: A Spool of Blue Thread: A novel  Then we have the ultra-insular Leary family in "The Accidental Tourist" who play their ... Just your typical American family but a bit quirkier like all Tyler families. .... Moving through the novel, an unexpected death will lead to the discovery of the truth ... The understanding is provided that instead we must live with unplanned...
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McNally's Luck (Archy McNally, #2) by Lawrence Sanders ...  Playboy/lover/sleuth Archy McNally is back --- and the secrets of the filthy ... I first read the Archie Mc Nally series, then the Stone Barrington books, then Myron Bolitar. ... red miata, has also been asked to look into death threats to the local poet's .... The language feels like the author wrote with a thesaurus in hand, choosing...
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The People's Choice: A Cautionary Tale: Amazon.ca: Jeff Greenfield ...  Characterization sometimes takes a back seat to plot machinations here but, for the ... another one has to be rammed through so the author can get them all in. ... It also has one of the most fun--if not believable--endings I've ever seen in such a book. ... In "The People's Choice", political commentator Jeff Greenfield spins an...
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Featured Author: Ed McBain - The New York Times  Jan 30, 2000 ... "If it is possible, Ed McBain's telling of the cases of the 87th Precinct seems to ... "[T]he author leaves his famous 87th Precinct to write a novel about murder and adultery in Florida. ... 'Lullaby' (1989) ... 'Widows' (1991) ... 'Kiss' (1992) .... "Mr. Hunter includes the photographs of 18 friends and relatives, and...
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The Beat Goes On - Page 2 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  May 23, 1996 ... Cop-turned-author Joseph Wambaugh Talks About O.j., Hollywood And His Newest Novel ... When they realize he's a cop, just like them, they'll open up . . . tell ... and TV's "Police Story," among them--that he has had a hand in creating. ... and Hollywood today wants plot-driven stories . . . high concept.