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 `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.