{"product_id":"9780141185699-coming-up-for-air","title":"Coming Up for Air","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGeorge 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, \u003ci\u003eComing Up for Air\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge 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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Very funny, as well as invigoratingly realistic . \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four \u003c\/i\u003eis here in embryo. So is \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e . not many novels carry the seeds of two classics as well as being richly readable themselves'\u003cbr\u003eJohn Carey, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943101542497,"sku":"9780141185699","price":8.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34340454.jpg?v=1747275888","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141185699-coming-up-for-air","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}