Description
The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"The Right Stuff is Wolfe's best book" * Sunday Times *
"It is Tom Wolfe at his very best...technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic... The Right Stuff is superb" * New York Times Book Review *
"An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty and fiery death... magnificent" * People *
"Absolutely first class... Improbable as some of Tom's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was" -- Michael Collins, former astronaut
"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 other" -- John Pye * The Scotsman *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099479376
Author Tom Wolfe
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 309g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 28mm