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The Right Stuff
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784873714
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99

The Right Stuff

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20 Aug 2018
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11 June 2018
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The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program

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
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9781784873714
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Tom Wolfe

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.

portrait photo of Tom Wolfe

Also by Tom Wolfe

The Kingdom of Speech
Back to Blood
Hooking Up
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Purple Decades
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
I Am Charlotte Simmons
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Praise for The Right Stuff

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