The right stuff
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- ISBN: 9780312427566
- ISBN: 0312427565
- Physical Description xiii, 352 pages
- Edition 1st Picador ed.
- Publisher New York : Farra, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
- Copyright ©1979
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General Note: | "Picador." Historical account of the space program. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 18.00 |
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The Right Stuff
"Tom Wolfe at his very best" ( The New York Times Book Review ), The Right Stuff is t he basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" ( Newsweek )--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.