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A magical celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing from the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Years ago there was a little boy who dreamed of rocketing to the moon, of landing on the crumbly rock and walking across the Sea of Tranquility. He borrowed library books and read how astronauts had orbited the earth and walked in space. And every night he hoped that they would find a way to land on the...
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Preface by Paul Auster • Foreword by Edward Beckett
Edited by Lois Oppenheim • Curated by Astrid Myers Rosset
"You know, Barney, I think my writing days are over " Beckett writes in 1954 âwhen most of his output was still ahead of him.ã And later, "Sick of all this old vomit and despair more and more of ever being able to puke again. In a world where writers switch publishers at the first shake of a martini pitcher, our trans-Atlantic communications...
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