Coming Up for Air

By George Orwell, Marina MacKay

Subjects: Suburban life, Middle-aged men, Insurance agents, Manners and customs, Fiction, Social life and customs, Married people, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), English literature, Classic Literature

Description: Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.