The Right Stuff

Reviews / Votes

Tom Wolfe', article: 'You only had to look at him... or read such books as The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other -- John Pye * The Scotsman * The hero you couldn't hope to emulate', article: 'Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence -- Mick Brown * Daily Telegraph * Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction... a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory -- Andy Martin * Independent * [Tom Wolfe's] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists * Guardian * [Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don't like fun -- Freddy Gray * The Catholic Herald * The Right Stuff is Wolfe's best book * Sunday Times * It is Tom Wolfe at his very best...technically accurate, learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic... The Right Stuff is superb * New York Times Book Review * An exhilarating flight into fear, love, beauty and fiery death... magnificent * People * Absolutely first class... Improbable as some of Tom's tales seem, I know he's telling it like it was -- Michael Collins, former astronaut