Norman Mailer: A Fire on the Moon, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Fire on the Moon
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- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd, 06/2014
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141394961
- Item number:
- 4147204
- Volume:
- 432 Pages
- Weight:
- 324 g
- Format:
- 197 x 131 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 5.6.2014
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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.
Biography
Norman Mailer, geboren 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, wurde mit seinem Romandebüt "Die Nackten und die Toten" (1948) weltbekannt und zählt zu den bedeutendsten amerikanischen Schriftstellern. In seinen Werken hat er immer wieder Stellung zu politischen Themen bezogen. Für "Heere aus der Nacht" (1968) erhielt er den National Book Award sowie den Pulitzer Preis, mit dem auch "Gnadenlos. Das Lied vom Henker" (1979) ausgezeichnet wurde. Norman Mailer verstarb im Oktober 2007.
