Coming Up For Air
$19.54
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2022
Summary
A new edition of Orwell’s elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor
First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air finds fat, middle-aged and unhappily-married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian childhood in rural Oxfordshire, only to discover that the certainties of his past are dead and that a very different future is looming up to claim him.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472133090 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472133099 |
| Author: | George Orwell, D.J. Taylor |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 124mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Orwell: The New Editions |
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About The Author
George Orwell
D. J. Taylor is a writer and critic. His collection of short stories, After Bathing at Baxter’s was published in 1997 and he is the author of six novels: Great Eastern Land (1986); Real Life (1992); English Settlement (1996); Trespass (1998), a satire of 1970s England; The Comedy Man (2001), the story of one half of a comedy duo; and Kept: A Victorian Mystery (2006). Several of his books are set in his home city of Norwich.
His books of non-fiction include Afer the War: The Novel and England Since 1945 (1993); A Vain Conceit: British fiction in the 1980s (1989), a critical look at the quality of fiction-writing in Britain; and most recently, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940.
He is also well-known for his biographies: Thackeray (1999); and Orwell: The Life, published in 2003 to coincide with the centenary of Orwell’s birth. This book won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award.
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