Fire on the Moon
Fire on the Moon Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. It is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with…
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Fire on the Moon
Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. 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. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 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. 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. 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.
It comes with an introduction by Geoff Dyer.
Fire on the Moon
On the Moon
On the Moon
Flowers on the Moon
Back on the Fire
Fire on the Prairie
Swimming on the Moon
Set the Night on Fire
Raccoon on the Moon
Set the World on Fire
With the Fire on High