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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784873714Number of pages: 448Weight: 309 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm
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Tom Wolfe',article:'You only had to look at him... or read such books as The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no otherThe 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 excellenceEffortlessly,elegantly,Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction... a style at once objective,subjective,and hallucinatory(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(Wolfe) made literature fun and bores don't like fun
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe was one of the few true titans of American writing. As a journalist (as typified in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) he became the great chronicler of the countercultural revolution; as a novelist,in The Bonfire of the Vanities,he skewered yuppie excess to create perhaps the defining novel of the 80s. The Right Stuff,his pitch-perfect account of the space race,magnificently bridged the gulf between both disciplines
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