- Married people, Insurance agents, Fiction, Suburban life
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- George Orwell
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- 1st World Library, Diogenes Verlag, Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 93
- Language
- Dutch, French, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788423311590
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“THE IDEA came to me the day I got my new false teeth.”
George Orwell, originally born as Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
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