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The Last Man in Europe: A Novel - Dystopian Fiction Book for George Orwell Fans | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions
The Last Man in Europe: A Novel - Dystopian Fiction Book for George Orwell Fans | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions

The Last Man in Europe: A Novel - Dystopian Fiction Book for George Orwell Fans | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions

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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.

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I have been reading books by and about George Orwell since 1957, and this is one of the best. Glover's clever docu-novel fuses Orwell's life with his writing in a very plausible way. In today's world of "alternate facts," "fake news," and desperate fact-checking, Glover's book should remind us that Winston Smith's job in 1984 was to rewrite the past to align it with the present until, as Orwell wrote, "you were dealing [with material that] had no connection with anything in the real world." Incidentally, I believe that Dennis Glover's Australian working class background helped him to present this sympathetic, but fair, picture of the last honest man in Europe, right down to his red-baiting warts..