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Burning Down George Orwell's House

ISBN-13: 9781616956523

Contributor(s): Andrew Ervin

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Soho Press

Publication Date: 14-04-2016

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£14.99

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About the book

Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of news speak 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..

Burning Down George Orwell's House

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