![]() ![]() ![]() He's a tragicomic fusion out of Martin Amis, Nicholson Baker and Jay McInerney on a good day. ![]() That is to say, he flies around the country firing people. Your seatmate, as you crisscross Western America, will be Ryan Bingham, 35, a career transition counselor at a Denver-based management consulting company. You are about to embark on a truly wild ride. Set your worries at ease, sit back in your seat, rip open the little bag of pretzels and relax. If this sounds like the dullest quest in Christendom, ''Up in the Air'' is the first - and will surely remain the best - novel about one man's quest to accumulate one million frequent flier miles. Quest novels usually have as their object a chalice once used at a famous supper, a sleeping fairy princess, a rusty key to a chest, a New World, a ring, the perfect martini, whatever. This novel's hero fires people for a living and collects bonus miles for an obsession.į Walter Kirn is anything like the protagonist of his new novel, he may be the first author thrilled to be embarking on a 30-city book tour. ![]()
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