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Coming Up for Air
Coming Up for Air
Author: George Orwell
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, t...  more »
ISBN: 437804
Publication Date: 1948
Pages: 237
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Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Started slowly, but the ending is so poignant that it is well worth reading.


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