Ascent - Hardcover

Mercurio, Jed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743298225 ISBN 13: 9780743298223

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2007

Synopsis

Rising from the disadvantages of a Stalingrad orphanage to the prestige of the cosmonaut corps, Yefgenii Yeremin struggles with the covert nature of his Korean War missions, which cause his heroics to go unreported, and pursues glory when he is called to join the race to the moon. By the author of Bodies. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

""Ascent" is storytelling of high caliber, fully imagined, finely crafted.... Mercurio's understated empathy, his starkly elegant prose and his Werner Herzog-like instinct for juxtaposition lift "Ascent" far above a Boy's Own adventure." -- Michael Faber, "The Guardian" (U.K.)

"Gripping...Speaks volumes about heroism and the human condition in a taut, page-turning narrative." -- Simon Hills, The Times (U.K.)

"Haunting, powerful, and mysterious...a stunning debut from a writer who bears close attention ." -- Booklist

"Mercurio is a master of precision, armed, like Yeremin, with a razor-sharp eye. This is fighting-fit, muscular prose, which carries no dead weight. In short, it's that rarest of things -- a highbrow book that's vertiginously thrilling." -- Tancred Newbury, The Observer (U.K.)

"Ascent is storytelling of high caliber, fully imagined, finely crafted.... Mercurio's understated empathy, his starkly elegant prose and his Werner Herzog-like instinct for juxtaposition lift Ascent far above a Boy's Own adventure." -- Michael Faber, The Guardian (U.K.)

From the Publisher:

A truly stunning novel – spare, powerful and ultimately awesome – Ascent will propel Jed Mercurio into the first rank of British novelists.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743298225
• ISBN 13: 9780743298223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240