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Burning down George Orwell's house Cover Image Book Book

Burning down George Orwell's house / Andrew Ervin.

Ervin, Andrew, (author.).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616954949 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 1616954949 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: 272 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Soho, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A novel"--Jacket.
Maps on lining papers.

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Subject: Orwell, George, 1903-1950 > Homes and haunts > Scotland > Jura > Fiction.
Americans > Scotland > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction.
City and town life > Fiction.
Werewolves > Fiction.
Islands > Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Fiction.
Jura (Scotland) > Fiction.
Scotland > Fiction.
Genre: Humorous fiction.

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