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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141185699Number of pages: 288Weight: 213 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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