Coming Up for Air
- Kategoria:
- klasyka
- Wydawnictwo:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Data wydania:
- 2016-10-11
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2016-10-11
- Liczba stron:
- 156
- Czas czytania
- 2 godz. 36 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9781502436016
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 from the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in Penguin Modern Classics. 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 tranquility. But his return journey to Lower Binfield may bring only a more complete disillusionment...