The Moon in Its Flight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moon in Its Flight write by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on 2012-11-15. The Moon in Its Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and relentless self-commentary.”—The New York Times “Sorrentino’s ear for dialects and metaphor is perfect: his creations, however brief their presence, are vivid, and much of his writing is very funny and clever, piled with allusions.”—The Washington Post Book World Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, ground-breaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino’s first-ever collection of stories spans 35 years of his writing career and contains both new stories and those that expanded and transformed the landscape of American fiction when they first appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Harper’s, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories. In these grimly comic, unsentimental tales, the always-memorable characters dive headlong into the wasteland of urban culture, seeking out banal perversions, confusing art with the art scene, mistaking lust for love, and letting petty aspirations get the best of them. This is a world where the American dream is embodied in the moonlit cocktail hour and innocence passes at a breakneck speed, swiftly becoming a nostalgia-ridden cliché. As Sorrentino says in the title story, “art cannot rescue anybody from anything,” but his stories do offer some salvation to each of us by locating hope, humor, and beauty amidst a prevailing wind of cynical despair. Gilbert Sorrentino has published over 20 books of fiction and poetry, including the classic Mulligan Stew and his latest novel, Little Casino, which was shortlisted for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award. After two decades on the faculty at Stanford University, he recently returned to his native Brooklyn.
The Moon in Its Flight
The Moon in Its Flight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moon in Its Flight write by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on . The Moon in Its Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains a collection of short stories by Gilbert Sorrentino about urban culture, the American Dream, youth, aging, and love.
How Apollo Flew to the Moon
How Apollo Flew to the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Apollo Flew to the Moon write by W. David Woods. This book was released on 2011-08-08. How Apollo Flew to the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union - in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space, the United States gathered the best of its engineers and set itself the goal of reaching the Moon within a decade. In an expanding 2nd edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, David Woods tells the exciting story of how the resulting Apollo flights were conducted by following a virtual flight to the Moon and its exploration of the surface. From launch to splashdown, he hitches a ride in the incredible spaceships that took men to another world, exploring each step of the journey and detailing the enormous range of disciplines, techniques, and procedures the Apollo crews had to master. While describing the tremendous technological accomplishment involved, he adds the human dimension by calling on the testimony of the people who were there at the time. He provides a wealth of fascinating and accessible material: the role of the powerful Saturn V, the reasoning behind trajectories, the day-to-day concerns of human and spacecraft health between two worlds, the exploration of the lunar surface and the sheer daring involved in traveling to the Moon and the mid-twentieth century. Given the tremendous success of the original edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, the second edition will have a new chapter on surface activities, inspired by reader's comment on Amazon.com. There will also be additional detail in the existing chapters to incorporate all the feedback from the original edition, and will include larger illustrations.
Moonshot
Moonshot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moonshot write by Brian Floca. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Moonshot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An extraordinary delight for a reader of any age.” —The New York Times Book Review Brian Floca explores Apollo 11’s famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot! Simply told, grandly shown, and now with eight additional pages of brand-new art and more in-depth information about the historic moon landing, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of rockets, and the silence of the Moon. Here is a story of adventure and discovery—a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away.
The Moon in Its Flight
The Moon in Its Flight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moon in Its Flight write by Gilbert Sorrentino. This book was released on 2004. The Moon in Its Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A series of miniature masterpieces sealing Gilbert Sorrentino's reputation as the master of American avant-garde fiction.
