Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
$15.99
Secondhand paperback very good condition. Published by Penguin Books, 1939. Coming Up for Air follows George Bowling, a middle-aged insurance salesman, who wins money on a horse race and decides to return to his childhood home in Lower Binfield to recapture his idyllic past and escape his mundane life amid fears of impending war. Nostalgic reflections on his youth contrast sharply with the modern changes he finds, including commercial development and lost innocence. The novel explores themes of nostalgia, the futility of recapturing the past, and pre-World War II anxieties in England.
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