Dear American Airlines / Jonathan Miles.
Despairing yet effusive litterateur Benjamin Ford is midair in midlife crisis. Bennie is en route from New York, where he shares a cramped apartment with his stroke-disabled mother and her caretaker, to L.A., where he will attend his daughter Stella's wedding. He gets stranded at O'Hare when his connecting flight along with all others is unaccountably canceled. In the long, empty hours amid a marooned crowd, Bennie's demand for a refund quickly becomes a scathing yet oddly joyful reflection on his difficult life, and on the Polish novel he is translating. Bennie writes lightly of his dark years of drinking, of his failed marriages, about his mother's descent into suicidal madness and about her marriage to Bennie's father, a survivor of a Nazi labor camp. Bennie's father recited Polish poetry for solace during Bennie's childhood, inadvertently setting Bennie's life course; Bennie's command of language as he describes his fellow strandees and his riotous embrace of his own feelings will have readers rooting for him
Record details
- ISBN: 9780547054018
- ISBN: 0547054017
- Physical Description: 180 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
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| Subject: | Air travel > Fiction. Introspection > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Forsyth Central | FIC Miles, Jonathan (Text) | 0112517253368 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lee County Main Library | F/MILES (Text) | 33262002880299 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| North Davidson Public Library | F M (Text) | 25908005273979 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Rutherford County Library | F Mil (Text) | 38801101210927 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| South Buncombe/Skyland Library | F MIL (Text) | 0020507825063 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Southside Branch | FIC Miles, Jonathan (Text) | 0112516278903 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | F MILES (Text) | 33114016164329 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
