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
