A Week at the Airport - Alain de Botton
- In english. First published in 2009.
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.
-> One of those "I just loved it" book. De Botton has been on my all time favorite list for a while now and it is always with the utmost pleasure that I fall into his latest books. Something like reading from your own words, witnessing your own thoughts, sharing with readers what pops up in your mind... and so on. I kept turning the pages of this one, thinking (and laughing) at how familiar this was or that it was exactly the kind of thing I wanted to know... all along. Happy reading.
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.
-> One of those "I just loved it" book. De Botton has been on my all time favorite list for a while now and it is always with the utmost pleasure that I fall into his latest books. Something like reading from your own words, witnessing your own thoughts, sharing with readers what pops up in your mind... and so on. I kept turning the pages of this one, thinking (and laughing) at how familiar this was or that it was exactly the kind of thing I wanted to know... all along. Happy reading.