Burning down George Orwell's house
By: Andrew Ervin
Publisher: Soho
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781616954949
Subjects: Werewolves; Homes and haunts; Americans; Islands; Self-actualization (Psychology); City and town life; Fiction
Other titles: George Orwell's house
Description: "Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch. But a few of the local islanders take a decidedly shallow view of a foreigner coming to visit in order to sort himself out, and Ray quickly finds himself having to deal with not only his own issues but also a community whose eccentricities are at times amusing and at others downright dangerous."--
Notes: "A novel"--Jacket.

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