Coming Up for Air George Orwell Original Vintage Penguin Book No. 1697

Description: Difficult to find in the US. OBO! Original Vintage Penguin Book - Coming Up for Air George Orwell No. 1697. If it is permissible to regard George Orwell as a political seismograph, Coming up for Air nicely records the quaking confusion of England in 1939. War overshadows every chapter. The fear of it forces George Bowling, a very ordinary suburban Englishman of forty-five, to go back in his mind to that other 'before-the-war'-to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. In retrospect it seems to him that his active life ended when he was sixteen; the First World War, eighteen years in insurance, marriage to the joyless Hilda - these have been no more than death in life. Suddenly he is struck by the bold idea of revisiting the scene of his boyhood. Such a visit will feel like coming up for air. But in the event it is certainly no more than that. For the journey to Lower Binfield spells complete disilusionment, and George Bowling settles once more into the ooze of routine and frustration, with the shadow of Nineteen Eighty-Four looming up in the distance.

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