Coming up for Air
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George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fear...
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George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. 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. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. So he decides to escape to the world of his childhood, to 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 . . ''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
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141185699
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
288
Udgivelsesdato
25-01-2001
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1115181
EAN nr.
9780141185699
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
129
Bredde (mm)
197
Længde (mm)
15
Vægt (g)
210
