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From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it?s like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today?s astronauts.
Knopf
April 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0375412050
Hardcover
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At the novel�s center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married
to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children,
with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her
husband, Brian, a rigorous man whose dreams of glory have
been blighted by two star-crossed missions. Walt Womack, the
steady, unflappable leader of the training team that
prepares Lucy for her first shuttle flight. Lucy has devoted years of intense and focused effort to win
her place on a mission, but as her lifelong dream of flying
in space comes true, her familiar world appears to be
falling apart around her. Her marriage is deteriorating. Her
son�s asthma is growing more serious. Her relationship with
Walt Womack is becoming dangerously intimate. And when at
last she is in space, 240 miles above the earth, and an
accident renders the world she left behind appallingly
distant�perhaps unreachable�her spirit is tested in gripping
and unexpected ways. In The Gates of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan�s narrative
authority brought a vanished nineteenth-century Texas to
vibrant life. In Challenger Park, he does the same with the
world of space flight, bringing us up close to the lives�the
risks, the friendships, the rituals, the training�of the
astronauts and the people who work with them. Harrigan has
written an exciting�indeed a thrilling�novel about the
contrary pulls of home and adventure, reality and dreams,
and the unimaginable experience, the joys and terrors and
revelations, of space flight itself.
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