Уолтер Керн

Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor -which is a fancy way of saying that he fires people - has kept him airborne for years. Although he hates his job, he feels at home in "Airworld" and likes the dry recycled airport air, tasteless plane food and anonymous hotel rooms. With a letter of resignation on his boss's desk, and the hope of a new job on the horizon, Ryan is agoni...

This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story.Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy--not orthodontia,...

Райан, герой романа американского писателя Уолтера Керна «Мне бы в небо» по долгу службы все свое время проводит в самолетах. Его работа заключается в том, чтобы увольнять служащих корпораций, чье начальство не желает брать на себя эту неприятную задачу. Ему нравится жить между небом и землей, не имея ни привязанностей, ни обязательств, ни личной жизни. При этом Райан и сам намерен сменить работу,...