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Coming Up for Air

» George Orwell

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 25 Jan 2001

£9.99

Synopsis

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, 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 tranquility. But what will he find when he gets there?

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Critic Review:

‘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

‘His ironic humour is fresher than ever. This is an Orwell not to miss’ – Observer

Product details

Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141185699
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 256
Published : 25 Jan 2001
Publisher : Penguin Classics

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Coming Up for Air

» George Orwell

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