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02364aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 41BEC95ADB1C11E788BE6B1997128E48 003 SILO 005 20230913010647 008 170703s2017 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1468315919 020 $a 9781468315912 035 $a (OCoLC)992743322 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d LIV $d FFL $d IGA $d OCLCO $d JP3 $d FMB $d CZA $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 050 14 $a PR6107.L673 $b L37 2017 082 04 $a 813 $2 23 100 1 $a Glover, Dennis, $e author. 245 04 $a The Last Man in Europe : $b a novel / $c Dennis Glover. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b The Overlook Press , $c 2017. 300 $a 248 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Brings to life the final years of Eric Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, and the creation of his classic novel 1984. Dying of tuberculosis, Orwell sees this book as his legacy -- the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. 520 $a April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Forty-three years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy--the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. Completing the book is an urgent challenge, a race against death. In this masterful novel, Dennis Glover explores the creation of Orwell's classic work, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century, and is now again proving its unnerving relevance. Simultaneously a captivating drama, a unique literary excavation, and an unflinching portrait of a writer, The last man in Europe will change the way we understand both our enduringly Orwellian times and Nineteen Eighty-Four. 600 10 $a Orwell, George, $d 1903-1950 $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Orwell, George, $d 1903-1950. $t Nineteen eighty-four $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Authorship $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012015815.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006112503.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=41BEC95ADB1C11E788BE6B1997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search