The Right Stuff

Informationen zum Autor Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , The Right Stuff , The Bonfire of the Vanities , A Man in Full , I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood . He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Klappentext Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , The Right Stuff , The Bonfire of the Vanities , A Man in Full , I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood . He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Zusammenfassung A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY ‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait for someone to light the fuse?’ Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call 'the right stuff'? A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space programme, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making. ‘Tom Wolfe at his very best… Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic... The Right Stuff is superb’ New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Tom Wolfe
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781784873714
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-371-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History, Reportage & collected journalism, Regional Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Anthologies (non-poetry), SCIENCE / Space Science / General, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)