Burning Down George Orwell's House

by Andrew Ervin

Book Overview

A darkly comic debut novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality--or lack thereof--and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four . Ray Welter, who was until recently a highflying 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616954949
• ISBN13: 9781616954949
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"