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From the writer of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary electricity about what it's like, and what this means, to voyage into space as you of today's astronauts. At the novel's centre: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut committed for an astronaut, the loving mother of two small children, with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her man, Brian, a strenuous man whose dreams of glory have been blighted by two star-crossed missions. And Walt Womack, the dependable, unflappable innovator of the training team that prepares Lucy on her behalf first shuttle trip. Lucy has dedicated years of powerful and focused work to get her put on a mission, but as her lifelong imagine traveling in space comes true, her familiar world is apparently falling aside around her. Her relationship is deteriorating. Her son's asthma is growing much more serious. Her romance with Walt Womack is now dangerously intimate. So when at last she is in space, 240 a long way above the planet earth, and an accident renders the earth she left behind appallingly distant, perhaps unreachable, her heart is examined in gripping and unforeseen ways. In The Gates of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan's narrative authority brought a vanished 19th-century Texas to vivid life. In Challenger Recreation area, he does the same with the world of space trip, bringing us up close to the lives, the risks, the friendships, the rituals, and the training of the astronauts and the folks who use them. Harrigan has written an exciting, indeed a thrilling, novel about the contrary pulls of home and excitement, actuality and dreams, and the unimaginable experience, the joys and terrors and revelations, of space trip itself.
