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AURORA 7
de Mallon, Thomas
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Collectible Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0899199380
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199382
- Librería
-
West Point, Virginia, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Tickner & Fields, 1991. 238 pages. Clean and tight. "In this delightful, highly charged novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates a single day: Thursday, May 24, 1962, the day Scott Carpenter made the historic Aurora 7 voyage, which nearly ended in disaster." Only sliight toniing to edges of textblock. . SIGNED. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
Thomas Mallon's acclaimed novel vividly tells the story of a day in May-May 24, 1962. While Scott Carpenter orbits the earth in his Aurora 7 capsule, the lives of a host of characters seem interwoven on the ground below: everyone from a convicted child killer to a famous novelist, a New York cabdriver, a sexually conflicted priest, and a British housewife about to give birth to a thalidomide-stricken baby. Aurora 7 is above all the story of Gregory Noonan, a spooky suburban fifth-grader obsessed with the space program. The fate of Gregory and his family will prove mysteriously linked to the astronaut's when the boy flees school to watch the perilous climax of Carpenter's mission on the giant TV monitors in Grand Central Terminal. As John Updike observed, Mallon's novel-featuring cameos by Walter Cronkite, John F. Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald-"hones a multitude of details to a gleaming, smoothly oiled fit . . . and catches dozens of characters in its shimmering web."
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bertram Books And Fine Art
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- B610
- Título
- AURORA 7
- Autor
- Mallon, Thomas
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Collectible Very Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0899199380
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199382
- Editorial
- Tickner & Fields
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Palabras clave
- Space Fiction Rocketry Science
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Términos de venta
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Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG and small enough to fit in flat rate envelopes. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Virginia customers will be invoiced for 6% sales tax.
Sobre el vendedor
Bertram Books And Fine Art
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
West Point, Virginia
Sobre Bertram Books And Fine Art
Bookseller for over 15 years in a brick and mortar in Williamsburg Va. Now selling primarily online Antiquarian, Collectible and General Stock books. Our stock includes Art, Antique Maps and antique Botanical Lithographs.
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