He fears modern times - since, in 1939, war is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. 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. But what will he find when he gets there?
Из серии: Penguin Modern Classics
2010. So he decides to escape to the world of his childhood, to the village he remembers as a rural haven of peace and tranquility.