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Aurora Seven - $10 (Wethersfield)
condition:
like new
size / dimensions:
8.50" x 5.75" x 1.00" Approx.
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This book is in new condition, tight, no creases, corners are sharp and no markings or annotations in the book. Dust Jacket is in excellent condition.
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."
This book has been in our family library for a long time and in new condition. This is a CASH Sale only, No Checks. We can meet at a local "safe place" so you to review the book and then decide you would like it. Would consider shipping with buyer paying for the cost. Thank you for looking and considering this book on Craigslist.
Book Size: 8.50” x 5.75” x 1.00” Approx.