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Dear American Airlines (2008)

door Jonathan Miles

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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 cancelled. 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 cris de coeur of a life misspent, talent wasted. Bennie pens his letter in a voice that is a marvel of lacerating wit, heart-on-sleeve emotion, and wide-ranging erudition--all propelled by the fading hope that if he can just make it to the wedding, he has a chance to do something right in his life.… (meer)

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The start is slow, but the middle and end come in a fast, stream-of-consciousness torrent. Appealing to the sense of airports of liminal places, Dear American Airlines is the story of what happens when you are forceably removed from the world for a while, and have nothing to do but think. (

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settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |

I read the book while sitting in the airport in San Francisco, wating for my delayed American Airlines flight. So initially, I felt I had an ally in the author, and we'd have fun picking on the airline. But the book became the story of the writers life, and much of that was a sad tale. So it wasn't a particulaly fun read, which is what I was looking for. (

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rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |

This book just didn't do anything for me...despite being less than 200 pages I had a hard time finishing it. Bennie, the author of the complaint "letter" to American Airlines was likeable or sympathetic and the portions of the book that included Bennie's translations of the novel he was translating were pointless and annoying. (

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baruthcook | Aug 26, 2020 |

I didn't stop reading it BUT half way through I read an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin in the New York Times (8/9/15) which almost stopped me. She was asked, "What genres do you especially enjoy reading? and which do you avoid?" and she replied, " I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a new novel, sometimes." Whoops. This is a novel about a dysfunctional urban middle-class man. It was cleverly written: doesn't that count? Not enough. But I didn't stop reading, so perhaps 2.5 stars. I can't really say I liked it, or that I brought anything but angst away from it. (

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MaryHeleneMele | May 6, 2019 |

A tiny, almost perfect book. Guy going to a wedding, flight cancelled for no apparent reason, stranded in O'Hare, decides to write for a refund. And so it begins! A concise tale of the life of a fahter and the daughter who's wedding he needs to attend. (

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O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Dear American Airlines, my name is Benjamin R. Ford and I am writing to request a refund in the amount of $392.68.

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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 cancelled. 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 cris de coeur of a life misspent, talent wasted. Bennie pens his letter in a voice that is a marvel of lacerating wit, heart-on-sleeve emotion, and wide-ranging erudition--all propelled by the fading hope that if he can just make it to the wedding, he has a chance to do something right in his life.

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