1948 - A Critical and Creative Prequel to Orwell's 1984

1948-offers an answer to the question, what would George Orwell have written after 1984,-had he lived? It-quotes, parodies, and pastiches Orwell-s Diaries-of the period just before his death, and offers the reader a prequel to 1984 that explores the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's last great novel.