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Sputnik's Child, a novel by Fred Ledley
- Item Number
- 105
- Estimated Value
- 15 USD
- Sold
- 5 USD to ace1eee14
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
This engaging novel recalls the events that shaped the ideas and lives of the baby boom generation and laid the groundwork for an age of technology and its challenges. Jackie is Sputnik¿s Child, born in October 1957, the day that a human satellite first escaped the gravity of Earth for the heavens. This is her story, and a history of the baby boom generation, which found faith in the promise of technologies that could transport men to the Moon and picture Earth as it might appear to God. Jackie and her friends come of age in the 1960s, frightened by riots and wars, but also inspired by the civil rights movement, Woodstock, and the exploration of space. For Jackie, the image of astronauts orbiting and walking on the Moon gives her confidence that the frightful problems on Earth can be solved. As her faith and friendships mature through an era of social malaise, the ¿Me¿ decade, and a time of irrational exuberance, she achieves personal and professional success communicating the promise of the emerging age of technology. But when her daughter is diagnosed with a disease that has no known cause or cure, Jackie is confronted with a crisis of faith. Sputnik's Child has been recognized by The Space Foundation as a Certified Space Imagination Product (TM)
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