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Vintage Books
October 2010
On Sale: September 21, 2010
112 pages
ISBN: 0307739678
EAN: 9780307739674
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Non-Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a
wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place"
that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization. Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest
airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain de Botton found
it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of
the modern world—from our faith in technology to our
destruction of nature, from our global interconnectedness to
our romanticizing of the exotic. He met travelers from all
over and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots
to the airport chaplain. Weaving together these
conversations and his own observations—of everything from
the poetry of room service menus to the eerie silence in the
middle of the runway at midnight—de Botton has produced an
extraordinary meditation on a place that most of us never
slow down enough to see clearly. Lavishly illustrated in
color by renowned photographer Richard Baker, A Week at the
Airport reveals the airport in all its turbulence and
soullessness and—yes—even beauty.
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