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Thomas Mallon's acclaimed novel vividly tells the story of a day in May-May 24, 1962. While Scott Carpenter orbits the earth in his Aurora 7 capsule, the lives of a host of characters seem interwoven on the ground below: everyone from a convicted child killer to a famous novelist, a New York cabdriver, a sexually conflicted priest, and a British housewife about to give birth to a thalidomide-stricken baby. Aurora 7 is above all the story of Gregory Noonan, a spooky suburban fifth-grader obsessed with the space program. The fate of Gregory and his family will prove mysteriously linked to the astronaut's when the boy flees school to watch the perilous climax of Carpenter's mission on the giant TV monitors in Grand Central Terminal. As John Updike observed, Mallon's novel-featuring cameos by Walter Cronkite, John F. Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald-"hones a multitude of details to a gleaming, smoothly oiled fit . . . and catches dozens of characters in its shimmering web."… (plus d'informations)
I picked this book up thinking it was science fiction...not even remotely, but that really didn't diminish the read for me. Mallon weaves together historical events taking place during the three orbits of the Aurora 7 craft with the lives of his well-drawn characters. Their paths converge to a pinpoint ending that serves as a snapshot of how interconnected we all really are. ( )
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Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
-- Jonah 3:9
I want to say that the effort involved in one of these missions is such that, at the end, we often feel emotionally drained, and we tend to fall back on the comfortable phrases, and words, like "happy," "proud," "thrilled" -- and we feel so much more. . .
-- Rene Carpenter, at a press conference in Cocoa Beach, Florida, May 24, 1962
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For Sean and Christina
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At the bottom of the Pumpkin Patch Channel of Jamaica Bay, a burnt piece of seat belt decomposes.
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But he did say his prayers before going to bed, and he did make the customary petition that God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Thomas Mallon's acclaimed novel vividly tells the story of a day in May-May 24, 1962. While Scott Carpenter orbits the earth in his Aurora 7 capsule, the lives of a host of characters seem interwoven on the ground below: everyone from a convicted child killer to a famous novelist, a New York cabdriver, a sexually conflicted priest, and a British housewife about to give birth to a thalidomide-stricken baby. Aurora 7 is above all the story of Gregory Noonan, a spooky suburban fifth-grader obsessed with the space program. The fate of Gregory and his family will prove mysteriously linked to the astronaut's when the boy flees school to watch the perilous climax of Carpenter's mission on the giant TV monitors in Grand Central Terminal. As John Updike observed, Mallon's novel-featuring cameos by Walter Cronkite, John F. Kennedy, and Lee Harvey Oswald-"hones a multitude of details to a gleaming, smoothly oiled fit . . . and catches dozens of characters in its shimmering web."
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