| Coming Up for Air Contributor(s): Orwell, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156196255 ISBN-13: 9780156196253 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1969 Annotation: George Bowling, the hero of this 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00265573 |
| Lexile Measure: 1060 |
| Series: Harvest Book |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.36" W x 8.14" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: George Bowling, the hero of this 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Orwell, George: - GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works. |