"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."--
- ISBN10 1616954949
- ISBN13 9781616954949
- Publish Date 7 May 2015 (first published 5 May 2015)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Soho Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 278
- Language English