{"product_id":"of-a-fire-on-the-moon","title":"Of A Fire On The Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer--the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction--wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America's reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine: gripping firsthand dispatches from inside NASA's clandestine operations in Houston and Cape Kennedy; technical insights into the magnitude of their awe-inspiring feat; and prescient meditations that place the event in human context as only Mailer could.  Praise for Of a Fire on the Moon\n\n                     \"The gift of a genius . . . a twentieth-century American epic--a Moby Dick of space.\"--New York\n\n                     \"Mailer's account of Apollo 11 stands as a stunning image of human energy and purposefulness. . . . It is an act of revelation--the only verbal deed to be worthy of the dream and the reality it celebrates.\"--Saturday Review  \"A wild and dazzling book.\"--The New York Times Book Review\n\n                     \"Still the most challenging and stimulating account of [the] mission to appear in print.\"--The Washington Post\n\n                     Praise for Norman Mailer\n\n                    \"[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.\"--The New York Times  \"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.\"--The New Yorker  \"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.\"--The Washington Post  \"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.\"--Life  \"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.\"--The New York Review of Books  \"The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.\"--Chicago Tribune  \"Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.\"--The Cincinnati Post\n*This book may have remainder mark*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42972491940006,"sku":"9780553390612","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/of-a-fire-on-the-moon-9780553390612-5112520441900.jpg?v=1656041414","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/of-a-fire-on-the-moon","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}