Coming Up For Air Format:Trade Paperback a third-year student at the

a third-year student at the Institute of Special Technologies

and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road

inspiration: Barth's seventeenth book brings these three narrative 'roads' together inimitably

” — San Francisco Chronicle

Coming Up For Air Format:Trade Paperback a third-year student at theFrom George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle class suburbia. George "Tubby" Bowling is a middle aged insurance salesman, a job at which he grimly excels, dutifully paying the mortgage on an average English suburban row house, and supporting an ungrateful family. As the years roll by, he comes to feel