George Orwell: Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback PBFIC 'French Comedy of Horrors' takes

'French Comedy of Horrors' takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen-year-old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group

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while John Steinbeck's poodle accompanied him on his 1960 US road trip

George Orwell: Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) [2001] paperback PBFIC 'French Comedy of Horrors' takesGeorge Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bowling, forty five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent