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Anchor
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 0307476294
EAN: 9780307476296
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Non-Fiction
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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