April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work- Nineteen Eighty-Four.
“This imaginative work is an unexpected treat for fans of George
Orwell. The Barcelona scenes are especially memorable, cinematic in
their brightness. The more you know of Orwell, the more you will
enjoy it. This, finally, is the biography--even though a
novel--that Orwell deserves.” —Thomas E. Ricks, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize and author of the New York Times bestseller
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
'Dennis Glover has dared to burrow into the moral universe of
George Orwell, there to look through his unblinking eyes upon the
malevolence, vanity, cowardice and deceit that menace the potential
for a decent society. The result is a story rivetingly told, not
only of Orwell's insight and courage, but of his torments, his
loves, his gut-wrenching struggles. Read this book to better know
and understand an essential figure of the 20th century whose
writing and example still speak to us with urgency.' – Don Watson,
author of Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump
'This is a novel about George Orwell and 1984, written uncannily in
the style Orwell would have used if he had decided to write a novel
about his own life. The result is a fascinating, compelling and, in
the end, a deeply moving work, a wonderfully accurate and entirely
unsentimental tribute to the political writer who grasped with
greatest penetration the meaning of the European catastrophes of
the first half of the twentieth century. Glover’s Orwell is fully
imagined and precisely understood. With The Last Man in Europe, a
major new literary talent has been revealed.' – Robert Manne,
author of The Mind of the Islamic State
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