Burning down George Orwell's house, a novel, Andrew Ervin
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Burning down George Orwell's house, a novel, Andrew Ervin
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Burning down George Orwell's house
Oclc number
886745722
Responsibility statement
Andrew Ervin
Sub title
a novel
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. Also, the locals believe or claim to believe that there's a werewolf about, and against his better judgment, Ray's misadventures build to the night of a traditional, boozy werewolf hunt on the Isle of Jura on the summer solstice"--, Provided by publisher
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George Orwell's house