Title: Up in the Air
Author(s): Walter Kirn
Language: English
Published: 13 August 2002
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780385722377
Extension: EPUB
Size: 268 KB
Subjects: Business & Economics, General, Fiction, Psychological, General & Literary Fiction, Psychological fiction, Media Tie-In, Literary, Fiction - General, Consulting, Business consultants, Frequent flyer programs, Bingham; Ryan (Fictitious character), Air travel, Ryan (Fictitious character), Bingham
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Romance
Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor-he fires people-has 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 boss's 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 Air combines 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.
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