Coming Up for Air

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 - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny.

George Bowling, patruzeci si cinci de ani, ipotecat, casatorit cu copii, este un vanzator de asigurari cu o talie in extindere, un nou set de dinti falsi - si o dorinta disperata de a scapa de viata lui trista. Se teme de vremurile moderne - de cand, in 1939, al Doilea Razboi Mondial este iminent - prevazand cozi de mancare, soldati, politie secreta si tiranie.