Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008-06-05. Hardcover. Good. 0.8000 in x 8.3000 in x 5.6000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

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Sometimes the planes don’t fly on time. Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter’s wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O’Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: he starts to write a letter. But what begins as a hilariously excoriating demand for a refund soon becomes a lament for a life gone awry, for years misspent, talent wasted, and happiness lost. A man both sinned against and sinning, Bennie writes in a voice that is a marvel of lacerating wit, heart-on-sleeve emotion, and wide-ranging erudition, underlined by a consistent groundnote of regret for the actions of a lifetime -- and made all the more urgent by the fading hope that if he can just make it to the wedding, he might have a chance to do something right. A margarita blend of outrage, wicked humor, vulnerability, intelligence, and regret, Dear American Airlines gives new meaning to the term “airport novel” and announces the emergence of major new talent in American fiction.

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Bookseller: Once Upon a Time Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: mon0000445686
Title: Dear American Airlines: A Novel
Author: Jonathan Miles
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0547054017
ISBN 13: 9780547054018
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 2008-06-05
Size: 0.8000 in x 8.3000 in x 5.6000 i
Bookseller catalogs: Book;
X weight: 0.7000 lb

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