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Dear American Airlines

Jonathan Miles
3.11/5 (3201 ratings)
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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 International 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. Bennie's writing is infused with a sense of remorse 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, 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.
Format:
Pages:
180 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition:
1
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0547054017
ISBN13:
9780547054018
kindle Asin:
B003JTHWAU

Dear American Airlines

Jonathan Miles
3.11/5 (3201 ratings)
Read Download
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 International 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. Bennie's writing is infused with a sense of remorse 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, 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.
Format:
Pages:
180 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition:
1
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0547054017
ISBN13:
9780547054018
kindle Asin:
B003JTHWAU

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