Jonathan Miles (1) (1971–)
Auteur de Dear American Airlines
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Jonathan Miles, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
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Œuvres de Jonathan Miles
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1971-01-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Membres
Critiques
Dear American Airlines: A Novel par Jonathan Miles
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.
In the parking lot of a neighborhood convenience store Cameron Harris, a young veteran paralyzed in Afghanistan, suddenly arises from his wheelchair — truly a miracle. Both Cameron and his sister and caretaker Tanya are instant celebrities, and the unassuming convenience store quickly becomes a site of pilgrimage. Religious authorities, the media, medical researchers, and the entertainment business are all vying for Cameron's story, and the lives of everyone involved are upended.
This was both an entertaining and depressing read. Seeing how quickly one can be taken advantage of and how one's life can suddenly be wildly out of one's own control was pretty disturbing — reckless choices on the part of the media and uninformed decisions on the part of Cameron and Tanya. Having said that, this story was a masterful in its purpose as a novel masquerading as a true story. It's narrative nonfiction at its finest (even the acknowledgements refer to people who are not real), except that it isn't, but it will have you questioning whether it just might be.… (plus d'informations)
This was both an entertaining and depressing read. Seeing how quickly one can be taken advantage of and how one's life can suddenly be wildly out of one's own control was pretty disturbing — reckless choices on the part of the media and uninformed decisions on the part of Cameron and Tanya. Having said that, this story was a masterful in its purpose as a novel masquerading as a true story. It's narrative nonfiction at its finest (even the acknowledgements refer to people who are not real), except that it isn't, but it will have you questioning whether it just might be.… (plus d'informations)
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.
Couldn't connect with the characters. Prose gets lost in itself sometimes.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 1,080
- Popularité
- #23,805
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 60
- ISBN
- 64
- Langues
- 4
