Coming up for Air
by George Orwell
Publisher: Victor Gollancz 1939
ISBN/ASIN: 1605121630
ISBN-13: 9781605121635
Number of pages: 237
Description:
Insurance salesman George "Fatty" Bowling lives with his humorless wife and their two irritating children in a dull house in a tract development in the historyless London suburb of West Bletchley. The year is 1938. Doomsayers are declaring that England will be at war again by 1941.
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