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Insurance salesman George "Fatty" Bowling lives with his humorless wife and their two irritating children in a dull house in a tract development in the historyless London suburb of West Bletchley. The year is 1938; doomsayers are declaring that England will be at war again by 1941.
When George bets on an unlikely horse and wins, he finds himself with a little extra cash on his hands. What should he spend it on? "The alternatives, it seemed to me, were either a week-end with a woman or dribbling it quietly away on odds and ends such as cigars and double whiskeys." But a chance encounter with a poster in Charing Cross sets him off on a tremendous journey into his own memories--memories, especially, of a boyhood spent in Lower Binfield, the country village where he grew up. His recollections are pungent and detailed. Touch by touch, he paints for us a whole world that is already nearly lost: a world not yet ruled by the fear of war and not yet blighted by war's aftermath:
1913! My God! 1913! The stillness, the green water, the rushing of the weir! It'll never come again. I don't mean that 1913 will never come again. I mean the feeling inside you, the feeling of not being in a hurry and not being frightened, the feeling you've either had and don't need to be told about, or haven't had and won't ever have the chance to learn.Alas, George finds that even Lower Binfield has been darkened by the bomber's shadow.
Readers of 1984 will recognize Orwell's desperate insistence on the importance of the individual, of memory, of history, and of language; and they will find in Fatty Bowling one of Orwell's most engaging creations--a warm, witty, thinking, remembering Everyman in a world that is fast learning not to think and not to remember, and thus swiftly losing its mind. --Daniel Hintzsche
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It's a shame that George Orwell's two best-known novels, "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty Four" are neither one his best novel. The peak of Orwell's fiction is this almost forgotten novel, "Coming Up for Air." Set in the last few years before a World War II that was obviously looming on the horizon, this elegant book memorably chronicles the life of George Bowling and his attempt to escape domesticity and the horrors to come for a few days by visiting his old home town. Every time I reread "Coming Up for Air," I wonder what Orwell might have achieved if he had lived longer and had not been as ill as he was in the ten years that remained to him. If all you've read of Orwell is his two "famous" novels, you owe it to yourself to read this.
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Orwell describes the "modern" England of three generations ago, yet his strikes a resonant chord within the heart of America's post-modern generation. It is remarkably easy to identify with the protagonist, George Bowling, who is a nihilist in the midst of apocalyptic fervor. His humorous take on childhood, love and vocation will remain in your memory for quite some time. For anyone who senses a distinct detachment from everyone else.
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Coming Up for Air was a really good book, but the first part made me think that this was just a stepping stone book for Orwell. One theme of the story was rather mediocre; unlike 1984 where Orwell had a make-believe world and told how the world had gone wrong, this book was set in the time period inbetween the wars in England, and Orwell told what was going to happen. In that way, it was rather outdated. But the book then took a shift, and it began to take a deeper meaning. These themes held the book together and made a really good book that is more than worthy of anyone's time to read it. But, nevertheless, the fact that the book seemed to foretell World War II, and everyone should be prepared made it rather old. But I do not know when Orwell wrote this book. He could have intended for it to be a warning, or he could have written in this way not realizing that the book was doomed to fail the test of time. Still, this book is really good!
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Before 1984 - and even better than it.
Imagine Winston Smith in 1938. 1984 is a long way off yet. But he can see it coming, can taste it in the putrid plastic sausages and flavourless, fetid factory beer. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. März 2000 von "ozboz"
The lighter side of social commentary.
George Bowling is your typical post WWI English middleclass man just trying to get by. But how George Orwell portrays him shows the quiet desperation (for lack of a better term)... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Februar 1998 veröffentlicht
Mediocrity Prevails
Brilliant novel exposing all the little ironies, hypocrisies and little banalities of Edwardian and post-World War One England. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Februar 1998 von Derek Leaberry
A frighten book about the inherent soulless nature of societ
I have read this book twice now, and I am sure that I will again. Whenever I feel that my life is going nowhere, or that I have important career or person decisions to take I... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Januar 1998 von gary_fitzgerald@hotmail.com
Excellent
George Bowling can see the future (i.e. ww II) and it scares him. He worries about the "streamlined men" who will revolutionize the world after the war. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Dezember 1997 von howard_freedman@hotmail.com
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