A Fire on the Moon
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Verlag:Penguin Books UK
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.06.2014
Verlag
Penguin Books UKSeitenzahl
432
Maße (L/B/H)
19,5/12,6/2,7 cm
Gewicht
315 g
Farbe
Grau / Weiß
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-14-139496-1
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon
'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.'
A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about the extremity of what they were trying to achieve. Mailer is both admiring and appalled and the result is a book which is both a gripping narrative and a brilliant depiction of the now-forgotten technical issues and uncertainties around the mission. A Fire on the Moon is also a matchless portrait of an America caught in a morass of introspection and misery, torn apart by the war in Vietnam. But for one, extraordinary week in the summer of 1969 all eyes were on the fates of three men in a rocket, travelling a quarter of a million miles away from Earth.
With an introduction by Geoff Dyer.
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The Eagle has landed
In May 1961 US-President John F. Kennedy announced his plans of bringing a man to the moon before the decade is out. In July 1969, NASA´s Apollo 11-mission fulfilled this promise, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set the first steps of mankind on another celestial body, with Mike Collins waiting in orbit for their return. Norman Mailer, two times winner of the Pulitzer Prize covered this mission for LIFE magazine. His detailed report is more than just a chronicle of an epic journey, it offers the reader the personal and philosophical thoughts of the author as well. Some compared this book even with „Moby Dick“. (See also: Wolfe, The Right Stuff)
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