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Title: Ascent
Author: Jed Mercurio
Narrator: Todd McLaren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-29-07
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Yeremin, a Soviet MiG pilot, rises from the privation of a Stalingrad orphanage to the heights of the cosmonaut corps. During the Korean War, as a member of an elite squadron, he shoots down the most American fighter jets, a feat that should make him a national hero, but because the Soviets' involvement in the war is secret, Yeremin's victories go unreported. When he is recalled from obscurity to join the race to the Moon, he realizes it is his chance for immortality.
In hypnotic, deceptively spare prose, Mercurio tells a haunting tale that questions the power of ideology and the nature of fate.
Critic Reviews:
"Beautifully imagined....This wonderful new novel carried me away." (The Chicago Tribune)
"A saucy, witty, dramatic, and affecting tale in the spirit of novels by Amy Tan, Julia Alvarez, and Bharati Mukherjee." (New York Newsday)
