{"product_id":"coming-up-for-air-penguin-modern-classics","title":"Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) (Hardcover, 256 pages – Penguin Classic, 2001) – Penguin Classic, 2001. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Orwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53094103646432,"sku":"9780141185699","price":70.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/71yCMiKo8cL._SY522.jpg?v=1781648380","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/coming-up-for-air-penguin-modern-classics","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}