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| Verlag | Penguin UK |
| Auflage | 2001 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 196 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
| ISBN-10 | 0141185694 |
| EAN | 9780141185699 |
| Bestell-Nr | 14118569EA |
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
