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

Tom Wolfe', article: 'You only had to look at him. or read such books as The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other

John Pye, The Scotsman

The hero you couldn't hope to emulate', article: 'Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence

Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph

Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction. a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory

Andy Martin, Independent

[Tom Wolfe's] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists

Guardian

[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don't like fun

Freddy Gray, The Catholic Herald