Description
Evelyn Waugh's brilliantly observed satirical novel—in which the wrong Boot is accidentally sent to cover a war in Africa, with results that expose the vanity, the incompetence, and the fundamental absurdity of the modern press—remains the funniest and the most precisely accurate satire of journalism ever produced in the English language. Written with Waugh's incomparable comic timing and his complete indifference to the feelings of the people and institutions he is satirizing, this is essential reading for every lover of British comic fiction at its most savage. A genuine classic.
