It may have originally come out in 1979, but beloved actor Dennis Quaid is injecting new life into Tom Wolfe’s novel The Right Stuff. And we have a clip!

Most know the novel’s story from the popular Academy Award-winning film of the same name, which just so happened to star Annie James and Hallie Parker’s handsome dad himself, Dennis Quaid. (The Parent Trap, anyone?)

Now he’s back narrating the brand new Audible-exclusive audiobook for The Right Stuff, which marks the first time this book has ever been available digitally.

Listen to a clip of the audiobook below!

About ‘The Right Stuff’ by Tom Wolfe

When the future began…

The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes … the first Americans in space … battling the Russians for control of the heavens … putting their lives on the line.

The women had it. While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero’s Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching … the TV Press Conference: “What’s in your heart? Do you feel with him while he’s in orbit?”

The Right Stuff. It’s the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage. It’s men like Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of all and the fastest man on earth. Pete Conrad, who almost laughed himself out of the running. Gus Grissom, who almost lost it when his capsule sank. John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn’t a lie.

Listen to a clip of actor Dennis Quaid reading ‘The Right Stuff’

About the author

Tom Wolfe is one of the founders of the new journalism movement and author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full and I Am Charlotte Simmons. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.