Up in the Air by Walter Kirn [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 2001 • Doubleday

Up in the Air by Walter Kirn 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2001] DOUBLEDAY

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Light wear to jacket now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book has a few tiny stains [or possible adhesive runout] on rear boards [see last photo.]  Otherwise looks and reads like new. 

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 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.