The Right StuffFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 4 Mar 2008 - 448 halaman Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. |
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... wives join the circuit, trying to find out what has happened, which, in fact, means: to whose husband. After thirty minutes on such a circuit—this is not an unusual morning around here—a wife begins to feel that the telephone is no ...
... were calling home to say it didn't happen to me. This news, of course, was immediately fed to the fever. Jane's telephone would ring once more, and one of the wives would be saying: “Nancy just got a call from Jack. He's at the.
... wives, the death angels, to burn with panic over the telephone lines. All the pilots were accounted for except the two who were in the woods, Bud Jennings and Pete Conrad. One chance in two, acey-deucey, one finger-two finger, and this ...
... wives were Pete's and Jane's entire social world. They associated with no one else. They constantly invited each other to dinner during the week; there was a Group party at someone's house practically every weekend; and they would go ...
... wives in Group 20 Jane wanted to talk about the whole situation, the incredible series of fatal accidents, with her husband and the other members of the Group, to find out how they were taking it. But somehow the unwritten protocol ...
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IV The Lab Rat | 61 |
V In Single Combat | 85 |
VI On the Balcony | 102 |
VII The Cape | 127 |
VIII The Thrones | 141 |
X Righteous Prayer | 190 |
XI The Unscrewable Pooch | 214 |
XII The Tears | 238 |
XIII The Operational Stuff | 283 |
XIV The Club | 312 |
XV The High Desert | 331 |
Epilogue | 349 |
IX The Vote | 169 |