Coming Up for Air

Name: Coming Up for Air
ISBN: 9781804450161

ISBN: 9781804450161
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication year: 2020
Format: Broșată

Description

George Bowling, the hero of Orwell's comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition,and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the R