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.Available for purchase at:Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.

You crack your paperback, last spring's big legal. But before he achieves this long-desired freedom, conditions begin to deteriorate. Up in the Air By WALTER KIRN Doubleday Read the Review To know me you have to fly with me. 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. Up in the Air George Clooney plays the dry cynical character of Ryan Bingham, an executive who specializes in 'downsizing'. 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. /rebates/2f97818485432632fAir-Kirn-walter-18485432632fplp&. /rebates/2f97803854971072fAir-Kirn-Walter-03854971052fplp&.

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years.

Up in the Air by Walter Kirn