A Fire on the Moon
$39.72
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2014
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141394961 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014139496X |
| Author: | Norman Mailer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner’s Song and Harlot’s Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night, A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon) and The Fight. He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.
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