Coming Up for Air
€13.50
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780141185699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.214 |
| Publishing Date | 25/01/2001 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.74 |
| Tax | €0.76 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.50 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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