Up in the air
by Kirn, Walter
Overview: 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 "Air-world," 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 goa…
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- Full title :Up in the air / Walter Kirn.
Summary
Overview: 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 "Air-world," 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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- Publication Date:©2001
- Edition:First Anchor books edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Anchor Books
- Place of Publication:New York, New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2001
The Physical Object
- Description:303 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0385722370, 9780385722377, 9780307476289, 0307476286, 0385722370
- oclc:ocm50786222
- LC Classification:PS3561.I746
- Dewey Decimal:FIC
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