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Jul 1, 2001 · Walter Kirn. Walter Kirn is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, and his work appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Time, New York, GQ and Esquire. He is the author of six previous works of fiction: My Hard Bargain: Stories, She Needed Me, Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Mission to America and The Unbinding.
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Brief Synopsis. "Up in the Air" is set against the backdrop of the early 2000s, a time when corporate downsizing was at its peak. The story follows Ryan Bingham, a middle-aged man who works for a company that specializes in firing employees on behalf of their employers. Ryan spends most of his time traveling from one city to another, living out ...
Up In The Air. Meshing personal issues with the objective concerns of all makes for a meaningful narrative. Easily one of the best stories of 2009, Up In The Air takes a look at the conflict that occurs when grim reality shatters the life everyone imagines they will have. The most obvious example of this would be the various terminated ...
LC Class. PS3561.I746 U6 2001. Preceded by. Thumbsucker (1999) Followed by. Mission to America (2005) Up in the Air is a 2001 novel by American author Walter Kirn. It was adapted into the 2009 feature film of the same name starring George Clooney.
There's something wonderfully circular about the fact that Walter Kirn's novel Up In The Air, originally published in 2001, is now a $7.99 airport paperback. Like the hit film version directed by Jason Reitman and starring George Clooney, Kirn's novel affectionately skewers the modern corporate mentality that thrives on airplanes, in airports or in airport "edge city" chain hotels. Hollywood ...
Jul 3, 2001 · Circe’s fascination with mortals becomes the book’s marrow and delivers its thrilling ending. All the while, the supernatural sits intriguingly alongside “the tonic of ordinary things.”. A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast.
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Aug 13, 2002 · Books. Up in the Air: A Novel. Walter Kirn. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 13, 2002 - Fiction - 320 pages. 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 ...
