COMING UP FOR AIR (GEORGE ORWELL COLLECTION)

Coming Up For Air is a lesser-known masterpiece by George Orwell. Orwellian socialist ideology is explored subtly and effectively through the story of its protagonist, George Bowling, an overweight salesman. George's almost detached observation of human nature throughout has tongue-in-cheek quality and makes for entertaining reading.

Having won seventeen pounds on a horserace on a whim, George hides the money from his wife Hilda and leaves her and the children to take a trip down memory lane to rediscover his childhood. This holiday is his idea of Coming Up For Air, to escape the drudgery of daily life. He is fearful of the future as he gets the sense that war is approaching, anticipating food queues, soldiers, tyranny, and despotism, and so his boyhood hometown makes him face the bitter reality - time and tide wait for none. As he says, 'What's the good of trying to revisit the scenes of your boyhood? They don't exist. Coming up for air! Bu there isn't any air.'

Take a trip with George to Lower Binfield. Does he manage to finally go fishing - a dream he has been nurturing for decades? Find out if running into Elsie Flowers, his 'first woman', turns out to be a romantic encounter after all.

ISBN: 9789390213740
Imprint: Wilco Publishing House
Dimensions: 130mm x 198mm
Weight: 190g
No. Of Pages: 256