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Bezig met laden... A week at the airport (origineel 2009; editie 2010)door Alain De Botton
Informatie over het werkA Week at the Airport. A Heathrow Diary door Alain de Botton (2009)
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  ponsonby | Jul 22, 2021 |    ) alanna1122 | Feb 8, 2021 | ) resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 | Heathrow gave de Botton carte blanch to go behind the scenes and see anything and everything, talk to anyone, and write about it as the airport's artist in residence for a week. Exploring the themes of good-byes, hellos and everything in-between, de Botton gives a brief but moving portrait of one of this worlds spaces that manages to feel outside of any sort of specific site or space. (  ) Colleen5096 | Oct 29, 2020 | https://youtu.be/zvVfg5TOBpE (  ) soylentgreen23 | Mar 19, 2017 |
Let me start by saying, on a purely aesthetic note, that De Botton’s books are always graphically interesting and stylistically ahead of the black-and-white pack. The bizarre idea behind this work is that Alain de Botton would become London’s Heathrow Airport’s first “writer-in-residence,” stationed for an entire week in the new Terminal 5, observing passengers and talking with staff from shoe-shiners to security guards. His observations run the full gamut of the airport experience (he is no PR mouthpiece for Heathrow, as the premise of this book almost hints), from the uncomfortable (awakening at 5:30 am to the sound of descending planes), to the vast (the pure scale of Terminal 5, coupled with the diversity of humanity to walk its corridors), to the materialistic (the reverence for the executive lounge, which reeks of a caste system to me), to the inspiring (groups holding handmade signs to welcome back loved ones from far away).
We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there.In the summer of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world's biggest airports, having been appointed its Writer-in-Residence. He spoke with everyone from airline staff and senior executives to travellers passing through, and based on these conversations he produced this extraordinary account of life at an airport and what it says about modern existence.Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the stories that inhabit this strange 'non-place' that we are usually eager to leave. Taking the reader through the departures lounge, 'airside' and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more useful and more revealing than we might think. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)387.73609421Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Rivers, Oceans, and Flight Travel by air Aircraft, Airports, … AirportsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.61)
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I found it somewhat disappointing on the whole; as well as the expected stories of individuals, it contains reflections on wider issues such as diversity, assumptions, interconnectedness, separation and so on, but at a fairly superficial level. Perhaps the most interesting parts are those where the author reveals himself, as in his admiration of airline pilots and their (to him) demi-god status. It's not a bad book: one might pick it up at an airport bookshop and use it to while away a flight to Athens. But it wouldn't get you to Sydney. (