Книга: Orwell George «Coming Up for Air»
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Серия: "Penguin Modern Classics" George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George 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...'Very funny, as well as invigoratingly realistic... Nineteen Eighty-Four is here in embryo. So is Animal Farm... not many novels carry the seeds of two classics as well as being richly readable themselves'John Carey, Sunday Times. Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2001)
ISBN: 978-0-14-118569-9 |
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Orwell,George
Or·well (ôrʹwĕl', -wəl), George. Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. 1903-1950.
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