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Heat book bill buford6/7/2023 You certainly don't get that same sense of desperation from Buford-the fiction editor at The New Yorker for eight years until he left in 2002 to begin researching his book-who treats his detour from the editorial desk as an earnest quest for another skill set. Orwell was literally starving when he accepted the most menial job in the grand hotel's sub-basement. Ever since Down and Out in Paris and London-Orwell's gritty account of, in part, life as a lowly plongeur (dishwasher) at "Hotel X" in Paris in the 1920s-the gastronomic milieu has been represented in literature as a manifestation of purgatory on earth, populated by misfits and renegades unable to secure conventional employment elsewhere.
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