Coming up for Air
278 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1938
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ISBN: 9780156196253
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Publication date: 22 October 1969
Description
George Bowling, the hero of Orwell's comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
