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**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.*From the Hardcover edition.*words : 67185
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- Author
- Ervin, Andrew
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781616954956
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (121 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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