Coming Up for Air
George Bowling, forty-five, fat, an insurance salesman in a mortgaged suburb, collects a new set of false teeth and seventeen pounds won on a horse and decides to spend both on a secret week in the Thames-valley town where he grew up. He is going back for a pool full of enormous carp behind a country house, and for an England before 1914 that he can still taste. Bombers drone over the whole book; Orwell wrote it in Morocco in the year of Munich.
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- influenced by ↑ The History of Mr Polly
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