Margaret Lazarus Dean: 2 books
Leaving Orbit
Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it
In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of...
The Time It Takes to Fall
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
It is the early 1980s, and America is in love with space. Growing up in the shadow of Cape Canaveral, young Dolores Gray has it particularly bad: she dreams of becoming an astronaut.
At school, Dolores finds herself caught between her desire for popularity and her secret friendship with the...