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George Orwell: Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback PBFIC 'Luke Harding is one ofGeorge Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bowling, forty five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent