{"product_id":"coming-up-for-air-by-george-orwell-author","title":"Coming Up for Air by George Orwell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo 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 ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNineteen 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.Series:Penguin Modern Classics\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback, 256 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher:Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImprint:Penguin Classics\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN:9780141185699\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished:25 Jan 2001\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Looking Glass Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156547375260,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/5703\/3628\/products\/coming-up-for-air-by-george-orwell-312226.jpg?v=1703859856","url":"https:\/\/classicliteraturebookshop.com\/products\/coming-up-for-air-by-george-orwell-author","provider":"The Classic Literature Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}