

Dear American Airlines
Author: Jonathan Miles
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/05/2008
Categories: Fiction
Author: Jonathan Miles
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/05/2008
Categories: Fiction
Jonathan Miles is the author of Dear American Airlines, Want Not, and Anatomy of a Miracle. A former columnist for the New York Times, he is a contributing editor to such magazines as Details, Garden & Gun, Men’s Journal, and Field & Stream. His work is frequently anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and Best American Crime Writing. A former longtime resident of Oxford, Mississippi, he currently lives along the Delaware River in rural New Jersey.
Entirely dysfunctional airline industry as a metaphor for entirely dysfunctional American life--abysmal failures to meet expectations and make connections, mounds of baggage nobody knows what to do with, and that sickening, existential feeling that life can be a vastly unfair, bureaucratic wasteland......more
Too clever by half, as the British say. Everyone was ballyhooing this book upon its publication. So I plunked down for a nice hardcover addition. Everyone knows the concept: one-time drunk, has-been poet, current translator rehashes his life story in a long, long, l-o-n-g letter of complaint to the air......more
I've always admired Jonathon Miles' personality-driven, lyrically-satisfying journalism - book reviews, food writing, outdoors essays, etc. - so of course I was excited to read his first novel. Whether one loves or hates this protogonist, or loves or hates this book, (the nature of the beast of this......more
Dear Mr. Miles: Had I bought this book and not borrowed it from the library, I'd demand my effin' money back. This book was not all that funny. But then, maybe it wasn't intended to be and my bad for assuming a humorous read. I was incredibly annoyed by your whiny narrator. I felt no connection to him.......more
The conceit of this book is so unique, I just had to read it. It's a letter of complaint written by a passenger stranded in O'Hare Airport on the way to his daughter's wedding. In the course of the novel, he reveals his whole life. He's a dysfunctional character, and so are all the other key figures......more