Coming up for Air - George Orwell
Public domain
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Patrick Tull
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to come up for air from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowlings holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF., Bowlings everyman life provides a sort of cavalcade of England from 1893 to 1938. Written when the clouds of World War II were already gathering, this story of Bowlings journey into his own and his countrys past is told with humor, warmth, and nostalgia that will surprise and delight George Orwells many readers., George Orwell (19031950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Im
