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Coming Up for Air

George Orwell

Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

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Title	:	Coming Up for Air
Author	:	George Orwell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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.

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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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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

This is my fifth Orwell and the one I liked the most, so far. I reckon how I should reread (and in English at this time) both "1984" and "Animal Farm" before putting "Coming Up for Air" on top, but at the moment it stands there. So why have I liked this novel so much? Oh, there are several and kind of personal reasons. To begin with, I had the chance to spend some time in the tiny village of Sutton Courtenay where Eric Arthur Blair better known as George Orwell rests. Sutton Courtenay is just a

As with Orwells other books, I loved his endearing trademark of dry wit and humor in his powerful storytelling. This novel would probably resonate with anyone who has ever experienced an urge for an escapist indulgence. I would have given this book five stars had it not been for the description of wicked little boys killing baby birds for fun.This is a story about a middle-aged man trying to find an escape from boredom, fear and anxieties about aging, impending disaster and existence in general.

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

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,

Narrated by George Bowling, a man in his late 40s, living in the suburbs with a wife and two children, with an unexciting but stable white collar job, this is a book of reminiscences and a nostalgic look back over his life. Overweight, and with false teeth,George is a first world war veteran, now working in insurance, travelling regularly in an escape from his wife and children.Set in the pre WWII early 1940s, this book takes us through the life of George Bowling, as a child and adolescent

The best of Orwells pre-war novels. It also seems the most his own. Burmese Days apes Somerset Maugham; A Clergymans Daughter apes Joyce; Keep the Aspidistra Flying apes Gissing. But Coming up for Air apes no one. Orwell seems to finally realise the crisp, colloquial tone of his essays and non-fiction is the way forward. There is no feeling of the author getting up on stilts. For the first time - in the novels - the voice is as natural and easy as breathing. It helps that George Fatty Bowling is