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Coming Up for Air
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Based on 31 Ratings and 31 Reviews

Book Description
George Bowling, the hero of this 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 pr... More
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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
BindingKindle Edition (44 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages288
ISBN-10B003T0GA0W
Publication Date10/22/1969
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About George Orwell (Author) : George Orwell is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of George Orwell include Animal Farm (Unabridged), 1984 (Unabridged), Animal Farm.
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