George Orwell: Coming Up for Air
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- Kustantaja: Penguin Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 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).