The Right Stuff
Wolfe, Tom with New Foreword by Wolfe
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983
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Book Very Fine. NO notes. A 4" x 3" decorated owner book plate, but blank! Add your own name. DJ with nibbled spine base else Fine not clipped ($15.95); Inscribed "to Trevor with highest regards" and signed by Deke Slayton at dedicaion page.; 5.78 X 1.43 X 8.52 inches; 436 pages.
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- Title
- The Right Stuff
- Author
- Wolfe, Tom with New Foreword by Wolfe
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- Fine+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374250332
- ISBN 13
- 9780374250331
- Edition
- first printing of 1983 esition.
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Review
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne.
Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley
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