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Also by Walter Kirn:

Blood Will Out, March 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Up in the Air, December 2009
Paperback
Up In The Air, November 2009
Paperback
Lost in the Meritocracy, May 2009
Hardcover
The Unbinding, February 2007
Paperback
Mission to America, October 2005
Hardcover
Thumbsucker, October 1999
Trade Size (reprint)

UP IN THE AIR
By: Walter Kirn

Anchor
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0307476286
EAN: 9780307476289
Paperback
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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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All Things Considered - December 30, 2009