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Shortly after midnight on the 21st January 1950, the man known to his readers as George Orwell and to his new bride Sonia, as Eric Arthur Blair, breathes his last in a small side ward of the University College Hospital. Beside his bed, his bags are packed for a trip to Switzerland. He is alone and afraid. Shortly after midnight on the 21st January 20--, in a country with 4.2 million CCTV devices - one for every 14 people in the country, a security camera captures a homeless tramp with a high forehead and thin moustache, dying of hypothermia in an alley beside an Islington pub on a snowy winter night. As his dying breath vaporizes in the freezing air, he grows cold. The warm vapour of his final exhalation travels upwards to dissipate in the atmosphere, but instead, coalesces and descends again to the cold blue lips of the man lying in the alley. He takes a breath and the tramp’s body warms as a new occupant moves in. Eric is awake.
- Sales Rank: #4827139 in Books
- Published on: 2013-06-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .66" w x 5.00" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 292 pages
About the Author
Dom Shaw began his media career at 21 by winning the Grierson Award for Best Documentary in 1982 for co-directing the seminal post-punk documentary ‘Rough Cut & Ready Dubbed’. After a few years directing music documentaries for the fledgling Channel 4, he started scriptwriting for television. In a varied career behind the camera, he has written for peak time series on the BBC and ITV networks in the UK. ‘Eric is Awake’ is his first novel.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Orwell Meets the 2000's in a Book that is Sure to Hit it Big
By ReadersUnite
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a Dystopian junkie, and that it all started with a love for Orwell's 1984, and, subsequently, Animal Farm, so when I saw Eric is Awake by Dom Shaw on Goodreads, and saw Orwell's profile and piercing, sardonic gaze from the cover, I had to be part of the read and review for it, and I am so glad I took the chance with this literary Dystopian ficiton.
Firstly, the cover for this book is vibrant and appealing and captured my interest right away. I am happy to say that the content is even more appealing. The layout for the book is so compelling and well researched. The Orwellian journals, the articles with recipes for impoverished and creative foodies, the running narrative, and even the flashes of police reports might have made for a confusing read, if it wasn't so expertly plotted. As it is, I flew through the pages, with rarely a snag, and a growing sense of foreboding, curiosity, mystery and discomfort.
Indeed, Shaw understands how to craft discomfort with humor and human folly so well, that it is no surprise for me to find out that he has been (under a different name) a bestselling co-author. His language is precision, his story is moving, intriguing and hits uncomfortably close to home, even for a U.S. born reader (the author writes about U.K. related events, but ones that readers of many nations will have no trouble relating to).
This book is highly political in tone, but is, at the same time, aware of the limited views of radicals and conservatives, alike. The book plays upon the sometimes ridiculous ways in which revolutions can occur. It is a novel about human mishaps merged with power grabs merged with lust merged with technology. A novel about how these things bring about the best and worst in different people.
As Eric, the protagonist, struggles with his identity, and even his name (how will he be hailed when he doesn't know, for sure, himself), we readers struggle with our identities, the ways in which we create ourselves and spend our times in this modern age. In the space of this book, the human story does not seem so different from the story told generations ago by authors wondering about humanity, technology and politics.
This is a literary novel, yes. It is a smart, thinking person's novel, sure, but it is also wildly entertaining, much like the novels by Orwell himself. You cannot go wrong picking this book up, but be prepared to think, and be open to re-reading it several times, as I surely will be. This book could easily have been taught in one of my college classes, and since I'm a college teacher, it very well may be in the near future.
Thank you, Dom Shaw, for your wonderful, intelligent, aware book. Publishers, instead of kicking yourself for not reading or passing on this gem, please follow the links below and do yourselves a favor. He is too good to pass up. Take it from an avid reader.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Eric is awake, but not very well at all
By charlie bowker
Is this the time to write of past progressive heroes of the twentieth century?.With the two main centrist Uk parties determined to stamp out memories of the working class movements fighting to achieve a fairer society and a more even distribution of resources;and the Daily Mail engaging in ferocious rubbishing of a key academic and father of the Labour leader from that pre Thatcher period,Ralph Miliband?Even Richard Hoggart's son is reduced in the Guardian to claiming that the seminal Uses of Literacy's purpose is to meet the needs of the writers of Coronation Street!!
The answer in relation to this blinding fear of, and demonisation of the truth, as Britain experiences ever widening social educational and economic gaps between the few rich and the majority who are much poorer, is a resounding yes.Dom Shaw has written an intriguing exploration of the concerns and involvements ot the real George Orwell with a character sprung from the homeless at the time of his death who may or may not be Eric Blair but who goes on to experience the depredations of life on the margins as well as the overweaning power of the Surveillance State today.Assange and Snowden had their forebears like Orwell and 1984 paving the ground for their truths about the individual's quality of life,civil rights and freedom of expression today.
But this is not a heavy book .Rather it carefully ruminates as it authentically travels from pub to rubbish tip in Norh London[innit!?].Its observations are amusing, insightful and absorbing to read Like the lives with little direction that it depicts,you dont know where itis going but Dom makes you want to follow to find out.Having worked extensively with many people who are down and out in that part of North London for 35 years I can vouch for the accuracy of the detail of this manifold existence[if only they could scrounge,..life might almost be tolerable]
This is a thoughtful ,clever delightul read . Is Eric awake in 2013? It is a very pertinent, open question.Do grab this book and find out. It oould make an intriguing movie,reflecting on the state of life today, compared with Orwell's powerful projections 70 years ago.
Charlie Bowker
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