Burning Down George Orwell's House

Synopsis

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.-- Andrew Ervin. A Novel--jacket. Maps On Lining Papers.