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THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE

Dennis Glover

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 illuminating novel, Dennis Glover masterfully explores the creation of Orwell's classic work, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century. Simultaneously a captivating drama, a unique literary excavation and an unflinching portrait of a beloved British writer, THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE will change the way you understand Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Dennis Glover grew up in Doveton before studying at Monash University and King's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in history. He has worked for two decades as an academic, newspaper columnist, political adviser and speechwriter to Labor leaders and senior ministers.
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Published 2017-07-01 by Black Inc.

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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

USA: Overlook Press; UK: Polygon;

Dennis Glover has dared to burrow into the moral universe of George Orwell, there to look through his unblinking eyes upon all the menaces to whatever is good in humanity. The result is a story rivetingly told, not only of Orwell's profound insight and courage, but of his torments, his loathings, 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 speak to us with even more urgency now. – Don Watson, author of Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump