Coming Up for Air
(Bog, Paperback, Engelsk)
- Type: Bog
- Format: Paperback
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Sprog:
Engelsk
- ISBN-13: 9780141185699
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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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| Forlag | Penguin Classics |
| Forfatter | George Orwell |
| Type | Bog |
| Format | Paperback |
| Sprog | Engelsk |
| Udgivelsesdato | 25-01-2001 |
| Oplagsdato | 25-01-2001 |
| Serie | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Sideantal | 288 |
| Indbinding | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 / EAN-13 | 9780141185699 |