Year of the rat

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On the Scottish island of Jura George Orwell, dying of TB, tries to seduce and find love with Sonia Brownell...the woman he will one day marry. Despite the arrival of childhood friend and acerbic art critic Cyril Connolly and the creatures of his imagination: Boxer the horse, a philosophical rat and Joseph Stalin in the shape of a pig.

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