{"product_id":"9781616956523","title":"Burning Down George Orwell's House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA darkly comic debut novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality—or lack thereof—and George Orwell's \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soho Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057656938736,"sku":"9781616956523","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616956523_p0.jpg?v=1763849597","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616956523","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}