• Up in the Air

    Walter Kirn DoubleDay SQU 9999903164098 Article 0,00 €
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    Ryan Bingham, thirty-five, has a complicated past and an uncertain present, but a very simple goal: to accumulate one million miles in his cherished frequent flyer account. Crossing the million mark means many things to him, both practical and spiritual. Bragging rights among his peers. Status with ...
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  • Details

    • Book binding : Hardback
    • Preservation state : 3. Good
    • Publication Date : 24/07/2024
    • Year of edition : 0
    • Authors : Walter Kirn
    • Number of pages : 303
    Ryan Bingham, thirty-five, has a complicated past and an uncertain present, but a very simple goal: to accumulate one million miles in his cherished frequent flyer account. Crossing the million mark means many things to him, both practical and spiritual. Bragging rights among his peers. Status with the airline he flies for business. A lifetime of first-class upgrades. And freedom, naturally. That, and the satisfaction of breaking through a certain invisible mundane barrier onto a loftier plane of being. And once he has his million, he'll be happy, though what he'll do when he's achieved his dream (besides take advantage of a promised dinner with the airline's playboy CEO), he's not sure. As a traveling management consultant for Denver's ISM (Integrated Strategic Management), Ryan lives on airplanes and in airports; the transient realm he calls "Airworld" is his home. With his phone, his computer, and his frequent flyer account he's part of a new species: the commercial airborne commando who travels light and depends on no one. No one. We meet Ryan as he's making his final push. He's set up a fiendishly complicated itinerary -- thirteen cities in just six days -- that will mix business, pleasure, and family duties.

    There's a lot to do and not much time to do it in, but Ryan is convinced he'll pull things off, conditions permitting. And that's the catch. Almost from the moment he takes off, conditions deteriorate. Weather problems. A needy seatmate starved for human sympathy. Ryan's persistent, disconcerting sense that someone is paging him over the airport loudspeakers. Through it all, though, he points his compass at true north: one million miles. Six zeros and a one.

    Leave it toWalter Kirn to marry the literary novel to the airport read.

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