Public Loneliness : Yuri Gagarin's Circumlunar Flight
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Altered Space
ISBN-10
0998632511
ISBN-13
9780998632513
Publisher
Tortoise Books
Imprint
Tortoise Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 11th, 2014
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
161 grams
Dimensions
20.30 x 12.70 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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October, 1967. Yuri Gagarin sits atop a Proton rocket, ready to launch. After several turbulent years in the public eye, he''s been chosen in secrecy to captain the Soviet Union''s latest space spectacular: the first manned flight around the moon.
The second story in the Altered Space series, Public Loneliness is a detailed and imaginative look at a country and a space program with a curious schizophrenia regarding publicity and secrecy. Based on extensive research, it''s also a lively and literary story that references familiar classics (like Hemingway''s The Old Man and the Sea) and forgotten landmarks of Soviet socialist realism, while also touching on universal themes of adventure, alcoholism, heroism and shame. It''s a compelling look behind the massive posters at the all-too-real man who led the human race into space.
The titles in the Altered Space series are wholly separate narratives, but all deal with the mysteries of space and time, progress and circularity. Each one is an ensō of words in which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets, and people allow us fresh perspectives on the cycles of our own lives.
The second story in the Altered Space series, Public Loneliness is a detailed and imaginative look at a country and a space program with a curious schizophrenia regarding publicity and secrecy. Based on extensive research, it''s also a lively and literary story that references familiar classics (like Hemingway''s The Old Man and the Sea) and forgotten landmarks of Soviet socialist realism, while also touching on universal themes of adventure, alcoholism, heroism and shame. It''s a compelling look behind the massive posters at the all-too-real man who led the human race into space.
The titles in the Altered Space series are wholly separate narratives, but all deal with the mysteries of space and time, progress and circularity. Each one is an ensō of words in which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets, and people allow us fresh perspectives on the cycles of our own lives.
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