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Coming up for air

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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 principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.

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Series Title

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Call Number

823 ORW c

Publisher

United Kingdom : Penguin Random House., 1939

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780241597453

Classification

823

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Subject(s)

Fiction
English Literature
social criticism
World War II — Fiction

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Level

High School

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Reading Level

Fluent

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