This Is Your Captain Speaking by Methven, Jon

This Is Your Captain Speaking (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781451642155)

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This Is Your Captain Speaking by Methven, Jon

This Is Your Captain Speaking

$20.99
This Is Your Captain Speaking by Methven, Jon

This Is Your Captain Speaking

$20.99
Format: Paperback
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What if a miraculous plane landing was no miracle? In the vein of Christopher Buckley and Gary Shteyngart, Jon Methven reimagines such an event as a PR stunt in this biting, hilarious satire on the culture of hero worship and celebrity.

A PILOT, A JOURNALIST, AND A SEMEN TRAFFICKER WALK ONTO A PLANE . . .

When flight AW2921 crashes into the Hudson River and all 162 passengers survive, it's a Monday morning miracle. What the rapturous public doesn't know: the whole thing was staged as a last-ditch attempt at resurrecting the Air Wanderlust stock price.

Captain Hank Swagger piloted the miracle plane into the river. Disgraced TV news anchor Lucy Springer was "luckily" the only reporter on board, and the first to capture the story. Con man Normal Fulk recently faked his own death to escape the consequences of his barely legal career as a celebrity semen trafficker. Toting his last big score--the "John Lennon"--Normal has to leave it behind on the sinking plane or risk being identified and arrested.

In the aftermath of the crash and the chaotic week that follows, Lucy, Normal, and Captain Swagger are all about to discover what it means to be at the center of a miracle that is anything but.

Author: Jon Methven
ISBN-10: 1451642156
ISBN-13: 9781451642155
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/09/2012 pg. 26
Booklist 05/01/2012 pg. 82
Entertainment Weekly 06/01/2012 pg. 122
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2012
By Jon Methven
By Jon Methven
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Jon Methven has worked as a paperboy, a dishwasher, a Ponderosa meat cook (everything medium well), a pizza deliverer, a golf course grounds crewman, a barbecue seasoning filter employee, an illegal barbecue seasoning filter employee since he was living in Australia without a work visa at the time, a bartender, a mascot at Yankee Stadium (Mr. Popcorn), a journalist, a taste tester, and a cubicle dweller. He knows things you can only dream of knowing, or can learn if willing to work for minimum wage. His work has appeared at Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, n+1, The New York Times, and New York magazine, and he currently writes the "Analytically Speaking" column that appears Mondays at The Awl. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

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