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Title: COMING UP FOR AIR
By: George Orwell
Format: Hardback

List price: £30.00


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ISBN 10: 0436231271
ISBN 13: 9780436231278
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 15 July, 1999
Pages: 254
Description: Looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads and the domination of the motor-car, to an idealised golden England, largely rural and unmechanised when, in the nostalgia of childhood, it was 'summer...always summer'.
Synopsis: Coming Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads and the domination of the motor-car, to an idealised golden England, largely rural and unmechanised when, in the nostalgia of childhood, it was 'summer...always summer'. It looks forward to the destruction wrought by air-raids (though written in 1938-1939, war is expected in 1941) leading to 'The world we're going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world.. the rubber truncheons.. the posters with enormous faces' that will be Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yet, despite its sense of loss and its grim foreboding, Coming Up for Air is a very funny book, with a rich sense of the incongruity of life and people, and it is illuminated by Orwell's wry, sardonic wit in which there is not a little self-parody.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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