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George Orwell

Coming Up for Air

This eBook edition of “Coming Up for Air” has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. George Bowling, the 45 years-old protagonist, wonders what to do with a modest sum of money that he has won on a horserace and which he has concealed from his wife and family. On a trip down the memory lane, he decides to visit the idyllic home of his childhood and spend some quality alone time there. But Bowling is in for a rude shock for everything around him is in state of flux. Even the progress that has come calling to his home leaves him in the midst of painful realisation…
284 бумажные страницы
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2019
Год выхода издания
2019
Издательство
Musaicum Books
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  • bookishaцитирует5 лет назад
    world we’re going down into, the kind of hate-world, sloganworld. The coloured shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons. The secret cells where the electric light burns night and day, and the detectives watching you while you sleep.
  • bookishaцитирует5 лет назад
    feeling that you’ve got to be everlastingly fighting and hustling, that you’ll never get anything unless you grab it from somebody else, that there’s always somebody after your job, the next month or the month after they’ll be reducing staff and it’s you that’ll get the bird—THAT, I swear, didn’t exist in the old life before the war.
  • bookishaцитирует5 лет назад
    There’s time for everything except the things worth doing.

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