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Released in 1939, Coming Up for Air is perhaps the final kiss-of-death to pre-war life in miserable old England, and the first ready-for-war book to soberly embrace the next six agonising years. The protagonist George is a First World War veteran whose life has settled into the predetermined routine of people of his class and age—a travelling insurance position, a nagging harridan of a ...
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COMING UP FOR AIR. A very different dish of tea from his earlier Animal Farm and recent Nineteen Eighty Four both of which instigated aroused controversy, is this book which was published in England before the war. Prophetic in its atmosphere, it is the total recall of George Bowling, 45, which is started by his set of new false teeth and some ...
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Commentary. In the novel Coming Up for Air, which he wrote just before the Second World War, there is an account of a left-wing meeting. The issues were different – Hitler and Stalin – but the description of the meeting, the sloganising, the emptiness of it, and his passion for saying to those of us on the left, ‘Let’s do better than ...
Jan 11, 2022 · My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Before starting to read Coming Up for Air, I was 150 pages into a lesser known Dickens called Martin Chuzzlewit. I had resigned myself to the pompous 19th Century style, with its improbably overwritten dialogue and run-on sentences. After all, it was a Dickens, and that meant the payoff would be a good story.
May 11, 2022 · The novel 'Coming Up for Air' bluntly captures the tense atmosphere being experienced just before the Second War World where people were genuinely afraid of air-raids and falling under Fascism. The pathetic attempts to escape this harsh reality by drinking, flirting, or in Bowling's case, trying to take up fishing again seem understandable.
But at its essence, Coming Up for Air is also a great tale in its own right, even if you don’t bother to dig into it too deeply. That also means it’s the sort of book that can be re-read, because you see new layers every time. Sure, read Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four first, but make sure that you come back for this afterwards.
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Coming Up for Air begins with one of the most disarming and quintessentially English sentences in all of literature : The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. The speaker is George "Fatty" Bowling, an insurance salesman, with a wife he does not love and two children he finds annoying.
