Coming Up For Air (Paperback)

George Orwell

ISBN 10: 0156196255 / ISBN 13: 9780156196253

Edité par HarperCollins Publishers Inc, Boston, 2021

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Paperback. 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. AUTHOR: 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. Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel from George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titre: Coming Up For Air (Paperback)
• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, Boston
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0156196255
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780156196253
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: new

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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.

À propos de l?auteur

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame.