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Airport is a novel by British-Canadian writer Arthur Hailey. Published by Doubleday in 1968, the story concerns a large metropolitan airport and its operations during a severe winter storm. Plot
The airport novel represents a literary genre that is defined not so much by its plot or cast of stock characters, but by the social function it serves.Designed to meet the demands of a very specific market, airport novels are superficially engaging while not being necessarily profound, usually written to be more entertaining than philosophically challenging.
In 1962, Hawkey was Deighton's choice to design the cover of his first novel The IPCRESS File, which some regard as the template for the covers of all subsequent airport novels. [8] He went on to design covers for Deighton's books, including Horse Under Water , Funeral in Berlin and The Action Cookbook (where the IPCRESS revolver reappears ...
The leading paperback publishers often hired experienced pulp magazine cover artists, including Rudolph Belarski and Earle K. Bergey, who helped create the look and feel of paperbacks and set an appealing visual standard that continues to this day. Scores of well-known authors were published in paperback, including Arthur Miller and John Steinbeck.
A Good Year has a snarkier, bitterer tone than those romcoms, elevating the airport paperback material (originally written by Ridley Scott’s Provence neighbor?!) with sharp performances and a ...
Trump needs a quick win. Even the endorsement from Trump, who has crushed most Republican resistance to his MAGA movement, cannot guarantee that Johnson will triumph as unified conservative rule ...
Flight Path: A Search for Roots Beneath the World's Busiest Airport is a 2017 memoir written by Atlanta native Hannah Palmer. The book examines the impact of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on cities such as Mountain View , Forest Park , Hapeville , Riverdale , College Park , and surrounding communities on Atlanta's south side.
On Friday, U.S. ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) and Chinese Robotaxi company WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) announced the launch of their ride-hailing partnership in Abu Dhabi.