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005 20181210092822.0
008 181226s2015 nyu g 000 0 eng
010 $a 2014042466
020 $a9781616954949 (hbk.) :$cNT$910
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3605.R855$bB87 2015
082 04$a813.6$222
100 1 $aErvin, Andrew,$eauthor.
245 10$aBurning down George Orwell's house :$ba novel /$cAndrew Ervin.
246 30$aGeorge Orwell's house.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bSoho,$c[2015].
300 $a272 p. :$bcolor maps ;$c22 cm.
500 $a"A novel"--Jacket.
520 $a"Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch. But a few of the local islanders take a decidedly shallow view of a foreigner coming to visit in order to sort himself out, and Ray quickly finds himself having to deal with not only his own issues but also a community whose eccentricities are at times amusing and at others downright dangerous. Also, the locals believe or claim to believe that there's a werewolf about, and against his better judgment, Ray's misadventures build to the night of a traditional, boozy werewolf hunt on the Isle of Jura on the summer solstice"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10$aOrwell, George,$d1903-1950$xHomes and haunts$zScotland$zJura$vFiction.