PMC Coming Up For Air
£8.99
Coming Up For Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads, and the domination of the motor-car, to an idealised golden England, largely rural and unmechanised.
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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
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| Weight | 0.213 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.6 cm |
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