The Right Stuff

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‘Wh ...

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, f