From The Independent archive: Christopher Fowler on ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell
rowing up in Sixties suburban London was rather like lying in tepid bathwater for several years. Into this sleepy complacency fell, a book that entrapped me for life. I was on the cusp of adolescence, reading voraciously, gradually testing the limits of my smug world, and bought it in the Popular Book Centre Greenwich, a seedy secondhand shop with a nice line in top-shelf smut. As we were still 15 years away from the novel’s date, I naively assumed it would provide futuristic rocket adventures.
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