Up in the Air

Author:Walter Kirn
Publisher:Anchor 9780307476296
Year: 2009 Print: 1 Cover Price: $7.99
Condition:Fine. Not Read
Genre: Fiction
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Pages: 362
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Ryan Binghams job as a Career Transition Counselorhe fires peoplehas kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls Airworld, finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his bosss desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles. But before he achieves this long-desired freedom, conditions begin to deteriorate.

With perception, wit, and wisdom,Up in the Aircombines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the psychic costs of our rootless existence, and confirms Walter Kirn as one of the most savvy chroniclers of American life.