EAN: 9781847499004

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George Bowling a forty-five-year-old insurance salesman with a wife and two children is overweight depressed and haunted by ever-present portents of imminent global conflict. Dreaming of escaping the staid suburban rut in which he has become embedded he reminisces about his home town in Oxfordshire Lower Binfield. But as he seeks refuge in the rural idyll of his treasured childhood memories the rapacious forces of progress continue their relentless march eventually forcing George to reflect on the folly of nostalgia and the impossibility of reliving the past. By turns comic and melancholy Orwell's fourth novel - published in 1939 to critical and commercial acclaim by Victor Gollancz - is Wellsian in its exploration of the frustrations and helplessness of a lower-middle-class protagonist faced with the indifference of a rapidly changing world and a vital record of a society on the verge of war.

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