Burning down George Orwell's house

Description:

"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."--

subjects: Werewolves,  Homes and haunts,  Americans,  Islands,  Self-actualization (Psychology),  City and town life,  Fiction,  Fiction, humorous,  Scotland, fiction,  Authors, fiction,  Orwell, George,,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Humorous,  New York Times reviewed

People: George Orwell (1903-1950)

Places: Scotland,  Jura (Scotland),  Jura