Burning down george orwell's house [electronic resource]. Ervin Andrew.
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, 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781490680477 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (9 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Donald Corren. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 208896 KB). |
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Subject: | Fiction. Humor (Fiction). Literature. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |