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    Coming up for Air

    Written by George Orwell

    Narrated by Jonathan Oliver

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    Coming Up for Air is a moving account of one man's attempt to recapture the innocence of childhood as war gravitates on the horizon.


    George Bowling is forty-five, married with children, working as a suburban insurance salesman, and desperate to escape London. It’s 1939 and the Second World War is imminent. Forseening the chaos it will bring George decides to escape to the smaller life of his childhood, to the village of Lower Binfield where everything is quiet and peaceful. But his journey may bring nothing more than chaos, confusion, and disillusionment.


    Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air captures anxiety of a population awaiting war, the tension between tradition and progress, and is seen by many as the thematic precursor to both 1984 and Animal Farm.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSNR Audio
    Release dateMar 4, 2021
    ISBN9781914230080
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    George Orwell

    George Orwell (1903–1950), 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 Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame. 

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      Orwell has such a knack for the descriptive that although the story is very basic, the detail of location and character is so fantastic its hard not be absorbed . I listened to the audio book and the narrator was excellent. I wouldn't say this is a particularly uplifting story but rather hammers home the ordinary .

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