{"product_id":"orwell-coming-up-for-air-2","title":"Orwell: Coming Up for Air","description":"George 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.\n\nGeorge 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 - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. So he decides to escape to the world of his childhood, to the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquillity. But his return journey to Lower Binfield may bring only a more complete disillusionment ...\n\n'Very funny, as well as invigoratingly realistic ... Nineteen Eighty-Four is here in embryo. So is Animal Farm ... not many novels carry the seeds of two classics as well as being richly readable themselves'\nJohn Carey, Sunday Times","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40151385538645,"sku":"9780141185699N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/orwell-coming-up-for-air-2","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}