Ver a tamaño completo.
AURORA 7
de Mallon, Thomas
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0899199380
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199382
- Librería
-
Ione, California, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's second novel, one which melds fact and fiction as it recreates a single day in 1962 - the day that astronaut Scott Carpenter made the historic "Aurora 7" voyage. 238 pp.
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."
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 79604
- Título
- AURORA 7
- Autor
- Mallon, Thomas
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0899199380
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199382
- Editorial
- Ticknor & Fields,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991.
- Palabras clave
- astronaut, 1960s, historical fiction,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern first editions;
Términos de venta
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Free media mail shipping in US included; priority is $7.50 and international at cost. Books are packed carefully, shipped promptly with delivery confirmation and insurance at our expense. It is important for our customers to be totally satisfied with their purchase and guarantee all of our books to be as described. Want lists welcomed.
Sobre el vendedor
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Ione, California
Sobre Bookfever.com, IOBA
Celebrating our 30th year in business. We started selling books in the CompuServe Book Collecting forum in 1993, a few years before there was any commercial Internet. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills of Amador County.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
