Coming Up For Air
A new edition of Orwell''s elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor
First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air finds fat, middle-aged and unhappily-married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian childhood in rural Oxforshire, only to discover that the certainties of his past are dead and th...
A new edition of Orwell''s elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor
First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air finds fat, middle-aged and unhappily-married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian childhood in rural Oxforshire, only to discover that the certainties of his past are dead and th...
