num_pages: 278
description: George Bowling, the hero of Orwell's comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
language: English
title: Coming Up for Air
titlecomplete: Coming Up for Air
characters: George Bowling, Hilda Bowling, Joe Bowling, Porteus, Elsie Waters, Elsie Waters, Porteus, Joe Bowling, George Bowling, Hilda Bowling
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, Modern Classics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 17157
places: London, England, Charing Cross, London, England
publisher: Mariner Books Classics