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Anchor
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0307476286
EAN: 9780307476289
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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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