Length8h 28m
About this audiobook
The bomb is coming. George Bowling, a middle-aged insurance salesman with a comfortable home in the suburbs, a nagging wife, and two ungrateful children, can feel it in his bones. It isn't just the war that is on the horizon—it is the end of an entire world. Stifled by the tinned milk and false teeth of modern life in 1930s England, he feels himself suffocating.
Then, a fleeting memory of his boyhood cuts through the fog: a pristine, secret pond hidden in the woods of his rural hometown, where a giant fish once lurked in the dark water. Seized by a desperate impulse, he pockets a windfall of cash from a risky bet and does the unthinkable. He goes on the run—not from his life, but back into the past.
Coming Up for Air is George Orwell's tender and devastating account of one man's quest to recapture a single, perfect moment before the world he knew is erased forever. It is a poignant meditation on memory, a savage critique of modernity's creeping ugliness, and an eerily prophetic glimpse of the turmoil to come.
Funny, sad, and achingly human, it asks a question that haunts us all: can you ever really go home again?
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 28 mins
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LanguageEnglish
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