Cover art for Coming Up for Air
Published
Penguin Classics, February 2001
ISBN
9780141185699
Format
Softcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.6cm

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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.

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