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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 Candleaand wait for someone to light the fuse?' Arrogance? Stupidity? Bravery? 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 program, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making.
Industry Reviews
The hero you couldn't hope to emulate', article: 'Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence -- Mick Brown * Daily Telegraph *
Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction... a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory -- Andy Martin * Independent *
[Tom Wolfe's] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists * Guardian *
[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don't like fun -- Freddy Gray * The Catholic Herald *
ISBN: 9781784873714
ISBN-10: 1784873713
Published: 20th August 2018
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 448
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 3.1 x 12.9 x 19.6
Weight (kg): 0.34
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