Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh. 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.

Author: George Orwell
Publisher: True Sign Publishing House
Published: 06/05/2021
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9789354620904
ISBN10: 9354620906
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Satire