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Coming Up for Air
Engelsk Paperback
Coming Up for Air
Engelsk Paperback

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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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780141185699
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0141185694
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
25 jan 2001
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
25 jan 2001
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