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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date
June 1, 1990
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786102693
ISBN-10
0786102691
Dimensions
1.25 by 7 by 10 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$44.95
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to ''come up for air'' from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and his family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowling's holiday is an accidental bombing by the R.A.F.
Bowling's everyman life is also a sort of cavalcade of England from 1893 to 1938. Written when the clouds of World War II were already gathering, this story of Bowling's journey into his own and his country's past is told with humor, warmth, and nostalgia which will surprise and delight George Orwell's many readers.
Bowling's everyman life is also a sort of cavalcade of England from 1893 to 1938. Written when the clouds of World War II were already gathering, this story of Bowling's journey into his own and his country's past is told with humor, warmth, and nostalgia which will surprise and delight George Orwell's many readers.
Editions
Hardcover
from Lightning Source Inc (January 30, 2008)
9781605120638 | details & prices | 248 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $23.99
About: Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, Archeion Classic Series, ArcheionPress.
About: Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, Archeion Classic Series, ArcheionPress.
from 1st World Library (July 30, 2005)
9781421808314 | details & prices | 292 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $28.95
About: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks.
About: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks.
Paperback
from Createspace Independent Pub (March 13, 2015)
9781508546849 | details & prices | 236 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.54 in. | List price $7.99
from Lightning Source Inc (January 30, 2008)
9781605121635 | details & prices | 248 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.72 lbs | List price $13.99
About: Coming Up For Air, by George Orwell - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.
About: Coming Up For Air, by George Orwell - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.
from 1st World Library (September 30, 2004)
9781595404312 | details & prices | 289 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.86 lbs | List price $13.95
from Mariner Books (October 22, 1969)
9780156196253 | details & prices | 278 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Middle-aged George Bowling perceives the true condition of the world when he visits his childhood home in the late 1930's
About: Middle-aged George Bowling perceives the true condition of the world when he visits his childhood home in the late 1930's
Miscellaneous
from Houghton Mifflin (October 22, 1969)
9780547564029 | details & prices | List price $14.00
Cassette/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
from Blackstone Audio Inc (June 1, 1990)
9780786102693 | details & prices | 7.00 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $44.95
About: George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to ''come up for air'' from his life of quiet desperation.
About: George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to ''come up for air'' from his life of quiet desperation.
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