Burning Down George Orwell's House

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"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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Not what I expected submitted by sara on June 15, 2015, 12:53pm I'm not sure what I expected, but it was a strange story. I did, however, finish it in one sitting, so that says something.

Mid-Life Crisis Takes Advertising Exec from Chicago to Hebrides submitted by sdunav on July 21, 2015, 2:05pm Along the way, the hero (or anti-hero? he's kind of a jerk) drinks a LOT of whiskey, thinks about the consequences of his profession, gets divorced, walks around the Scottish island of Jura in unsuitable boots, and thinks about 1984 while living in the house that George Orwell lived in. There's a teenaged artist, a possible werewolf, and a bunch of other quirky characters.

I liked a lot of the story, but the ending was abrupt and left me very unsatisfied.