EAN: 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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