Bøger af Bruce McCandless III

"Six poems and a song is anchored by 'The Turning Point, ' a narrative poem about the battle for Guadalcanal in November of 1942. Fusing elements of Homeric and Norse saga with contemporary slang, it's McCandless's attempt to create a uniquely American epic out of one of World War II's most important and brutal campaigns. Also included: poems about baseball and businessmen, and an extended sonnet sequence about lost love, 'A Beginner's Guide to Disappointment.'"--

In the Land of Dead Horses is the story of Texas Ranger Jewel T. Lightfoot's pursuit of a terror from another age, a herald of darkness unearthed from its subterranean crypt in the Chihuahuan Desert and set loose on an unsuspecting world.

One of the most powerful images in the history of space exploration is of an astronaut in a spacesuit, untethered, and seemingly floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II was the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around is the story of his inspiring life.