Beskrivelse
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.
Yderligere information
| Serie | Penguin Modern Classics |
|---|---|
| Forfatter(e) | George Orwell |
| Kategori | Bøger |
| Genre(r) | Skønlitteratur |
| Forlag | Penguin Classics |
| Udgivelsesdato | Er udgivet |
| Sprog | Engelsk |
| ISBN-13 | 9780141185699 |
| ISBN-10 | 0141185694 |
| Indbinding | Paperback |
| Sidetal | 288 |
| Genveje | Penguin Modern Classics - Bøger |
| Tags | 1984, Nineteen, Eighty, Four, Animal, Farm, Coming Up For Air, Bøger, Bog |
| GPSR | Produktsikkerhed |
