Title: Burning down 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."--
Subjects: Werewolves, Homes and haunts, Americans, Islands, Self-actualization (Psychology), City and town life, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, Scotland, fiction, Authors, fiction, Orwell, George,, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Humorous, New York Times reviewed
Places: Scotland, Jura (Scotland), Jura
People: George Orwell (1903-1950)