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Fly Girl A Memoir

Name: Fly Girl
Author: Ann Hood

Auteur: Ann Hood

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Ann Hood

Engels
Hardcover
9781324006237
03 mei 2021
288 pagina's

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Ann Hood

Ann Hood is the author of many books, including How I Saved My Father's Life (and Ruined Everything Else). She also knits, wanders around museums, has cool glasses, loves the color pink (although she never wears it), likes to play on her iPhone, and spends a lot of her time wishing she could time travel and meet famous people. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her family and their little dog, Zuzu, who likes to bark and nap a lot.

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An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” ( People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant.

Praise for Ann Hood

“Hood is larger than life, living, loving, and grieving on an operatic scale.”— New York Times Book Review

“[Hood’s] generosity of spirit, courage, humor, gumption, and grace are a powerful reminder that language and story have the capacity to heal, to instruct, and to change our lives.”—Dani Shapiro

“Hood never for a paragraph or a page loses control over the story that suffuses her, the sound of the words, the impact of images.”— The Philadelphia Inquirer

In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world—and maybe, one day, write about it—Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and stay calm no matter what the situation.

In the air, Hood found both the adventure she’d dreamt of and the unexpected realities of life on the job. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin and dined in front of the pyramids in Cairo, fended off passengers’ advances and found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more than a million miles in high heels. She flew through the start of deregulation, an oil crisis, massive furloughs, and a labor strike.

As the airline industry changed around her, Hood began to write—even drafting snatches of her first novel from the jump-seat. She reveals how the job empowered her, despite its roots in sexist standards. Packed with funny, moving, and shocking stories of life as a flight attendant, Fly Girl captures the nostalgia and magic of air travel at its height, and the thrill that remains with every takeoff.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 mei 2021
Aantal pagina's: 288

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Hoofdauteur: Ann Hood
Hoofduitgeverij: Ww Norton & Co

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Product breedte: 147 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 218 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 147 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 218 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 436 g

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EAN: 9781324006237

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Taal: Engels
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