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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Orwell Girl

The Orwell Girl

Sharp, Ellis

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1999735978
ISBN13: 9781999735975
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 25 2020
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When Ben Turner comes to Southwold in winter to escape a failed relationship, he encounters a mysterious and elusive stranger. This leads to the discovery of the town's connections to George Orwell and a growing obsession with events which happened in the town long ago. As the days pass Ben finds himself drawn into a passionate engagement with Orwell's life and writing, and a love affair which begins to echo Orwell's own romantic entanglement with a local woman. A novel about a love affair - but also involving a passionate debate between a woman and a man about George Orwell, his treatment of women, his books, and his evolving politics. Ellis Sharp is a novelist who is ferociously brilliant - Iain Banks, utterly invigorating - China Mieville, targets the deadly absurdities and frustrations of our civilisation - Ken MacLeod, his books are jam-packed with wondrous things - Lee Rourke, Ellis Sharp demands that we set aside a whole set of expectations, not only about realism, but also about political fiction and English literature - Mark Fisher, New Statesman, You can trust Ellis Sharp because beneath the zaniness, at the level of the sentence, he is very good indeed - Guardian.

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