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Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics)
£8.99
ORWELL, GEORGE
Product Details
ISBN: 9780141185699
Author: ORWELL, GEORGE
George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air, is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon.
The Story
George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is:
- An insurance salesman with an expanding waistline
- The owner of a new set of false teeth
- A man with a desperate desire to escape his dreary life
Living in 1939, with the Second World War imminent, George fears modern times. He foresees:
- Food queues
- Soldiers
- Secret police
- Tyranny
To find solace, George decides to escape to the world of his childhood — the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquillity. But his return journey to Lower Binfield may bring only a more complete disillusionment...
Praise for Coming Up for Air
"Very funny, as well as invigoratingly realistic ... Nineteen Eighty-Four is here in embryo. So is Animal Farm ... not many novels carry the seeds of two classics as well as being richly readable themselves."
— John Carey, Sunday Times
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