Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first
attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely
credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. 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. 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. 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. 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. With an
introduction by Geoff Dyer.
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