Coming Up for Air
Penguin Modern Classics
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Coming Up for Air
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Rigby
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By:
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George Orwell
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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, 45, 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.
Public Domain (P)2020 Penguin AudioTruly beautiful book
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Midlifecrisis at the dawn of WWII
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