{"product_id":"coming-up-for-air-george-orwell","title":"Coming up for Air; George Orwell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan mce-data-marked=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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'\u003cbr\u003eJohn Carey, Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40297727361094,"sku":"3517","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/products\/ComingupforAir_GeorgeOrwell.jpg?v=1661964379","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.live\/products\/coming-up-for-air-george-orwell","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}