George Orwell
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| Title | : | Coming Up for Air |
| Author | : | George Orwell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
| Published | : | October 22nd 1969 by Mariner Books (first published June 12th 1939) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Novels |
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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 RAF.Specify Books During Coming Up for Air
| Original Title: | Coming Up for Air |
| ISBN: | 0156196255 (ISBN13: 9780156196253) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | George Bowling, Hilda Bowling, Joe Bowling, Porteus, Elsie Waters, George Bowling, Hilda Bowling, Joe Bowling, Porteus, Elsie Waters |
| Setting: | London, England,1938(United Kingdom) Charing Cross, London, England,1938(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 11435 Users | 755 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air was written whilst Orwell was convalescing in Morocco in 1938, which would be a year after he returned from Spain in 1937, due to his tuberculosis which would hinder him until his death in 1950 (his convalescence didn't have much success apparently). Whilst not his most political novel (say, compared to his later works), still has quite an insightful aspect regarding life in Britain for the Lower Middle Class on the eve of a coming global cataclysm that everyone expects - andGenuinely cannot believe that an 80 year old book, set on the eve of the WWII, concerning a middle aged man having an existential crisis, is still valid today. But it is in spades.This book is perfect.George is 45, married in suburbia with two kids and a wife he dislikes but cannot imagine living without. He's a travelling insurance man - middle class, middle earning, middle of the road. The only thing that marks him out is his weight. He's healthy but tubby.He wins £17 through an illicit bet
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This started with so much irritating incidents that I was a bit reluctant in furthering my read cause it seems so 'messy' and harsh. It came with four parts, more like stages of how George Bowling starting to have an idea on how to escape his dreary boring life, the point of how it all started. An intro of his family and annoying kids, an insurance salesman job and burden of so much hell he feels like suffocating and while thinking about having his new false teeth and extra quid on his account,
One of Orwells less well known novels; it is a rather bleak comic novel written and set in 1938/1939. It is a well written novel about nostalgia, the lower middle classes, relationships between men and women and middle age. Orwell is primarily a political writer and as he said himself, Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism. Given works like 1984 and Animal Farm, it isnt surprising
I didn't expect this to be such a funny book. It was funny to the degree that you can expect any old writer to be funny - the writing was sharp, and the narrator was oafish with some funny lines.The protagonist, a fat, bumbling, middle class Englishman came across as a dark version of Oliver Hardy. Full disclosure, I've never seen Laurel and Hardy, and they may be just as dark for all I know.The story also put into words my distaste for the empty, "middling" class, powerless but informed rut so
I`ve read the book Coming Up for Air written by George Orwell. He was a British author who`s native born name is Eric Arthur Blair. He lived from (*1903 to 1950). Orwell`s book is a tragedy which is combined with a lot of humour. It`s not only based on the historical events of this story, but also based on incredible aphorisms which consequently motivates the reader to deal with the details and messages. Its a very personal book which broaches the issue of a normal childhood combined with the
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