內容簡介
內容簡介 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY `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 'What is it' asks 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? Bravery? 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 American heroics, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making.
作者介紹
作者介紹 Tom WolfeTom Wolfe is 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. He lives in New York City.