Ryan Bingham\'s job as a Career Transition Counselor-he fires people-has kept him airborne for years.
He lives near Livingston, Montana..
About the Author: Walter Kirn is the fiction editor for GQ magazine, and the author of three previous novels.
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.
But before he achieves this long-desired freedom, conditions begin to deteriorate.
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.
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.
Ryan Bingham\'s job as a Career Transition Counselor-he fires people-has kept him airborne for years
