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ROCKET BOYS von Homer Hickam 1998 Hardcover-Buch SIGNIERT October Sky * skuM3-

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Modification Description
signed by author on title page
Signed By
Homer Hickam, Jr
Custom Bundle
No
Book Series
Coalwood Ser.
Original Language
English
Regional Cuisine
American
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Personalized
Yes
Features
Dust Jacket, Signed
Subjects
Biographies & True Stories
Signed
Yes
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Age Level
Adults
Inscribed
Yes
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Modified Item
Yes
Edition
3rd Printing
Series
The Coalwood series
Type
Autobiography
Era
1950s
Special Attributes
Signed
Country
USA
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780385333207
Book Title
Rocket Boys
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Item Length
8.3 in
Publication Year
1998
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
Homer Hickam
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science, History
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Space Science, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Science & Technology
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Width
5.4 in
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at least in spirit, could mend it on the same night. And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added. The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine." So begins Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr.'s extraordinary memoir of life in Coalwood, West Virginia-a hard-scrabble little company town where the only things that mattered were coal mining and high school football. But in 1957, after the Soviet satellite Sputnik shot across the Appalachian sky, Sonny and his teenaged friends decided to do their bit for the U.S. space race by building their own rockets--and Coalwood, Sonny and A powerful story of growing up and of getting out, of a mother's love and a father's fears, Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys proves, like Angela's Ashes and Russell Baker's Growing Up before it, that the right storyteller and the right story can touch readers' hearts and enchant their souls. In a town where the only things that mattered were coal-mining and high-school football, where the future was regarded with more fear than hope, a young man watched the Soviet satellite Sputnik race across the West Virginia sky--and soon found his future in the stars. In 1957, Homer H. "Sonny" Hickam, Jr., and a handful of his friends were inspired to start designing and launching the home-made rockets that would change their lives and their town forever. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town of Coalwood and the boys who would come to embody its dreams. Step by step, with the help (and occasional hindrance) of a collection of unforgettable characters, the boys learn not only how to turn scrap into sophisticated rockets that fly miles into the sky, but how to sustain their dreams as they dared to imagine a life beyond its borders in a town that the postwar boom was passing by. Rocket Boys has already caught the eye of Hollywood: The producer of Field of Dreams is now working to produce a major motion picture in time for next year's Academy Awards. A uniquely endearing story with universal themes of class, family, coming of age, and the thrill of discovery, Homer Hickam's Rocket Boys is evocative, vivid storytelling at its most magical.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
038533320x
ISBN-13
9780385333207
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038306318

Product Key Features

Book Title
Rocket Boys
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Space Science, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Science & Technology
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science, History
Author
Homer Hickam
Book Series
Coalwood Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"[T]horoughly charming....Hickam builds a story of overcoming obstacles that is worthy of Frank Capra...[in its]...eloquent evocation of a lost time and place."-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,New York Times "A thoroughly charming memoir ... [An] eloquent evocation of a lost time and place."-New York Times "A stirring tale that offers something unusual these days ... a message of hope in an age of cynicism."-San Diego Union-Tribune "A great read ... One closes the book with an immense feeling of satisfaction."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "[T]horoughly charming....Hickam builds a story of overcoming obstacles that is worthy of Frank Capra...[in its]...eloquent evocation of a lost time and place."-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times "A thoroughly charming memoir ... [An] eloquent evocation of a lost time and place."- New York Times "A stirring tale that offers something unusual these days ... a message of hope in an age of cynicism."- San Diego Union-Tribune "A great read ... One closes the book with an immense feeling of satisfaction."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "[T]horoughly charming....Hickam builds a story of overcoming obstacles that is worthy of Frank Capra...[in its]...eloquent evocation of a lost time and place." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times From the Hardcover edition.
Lccn
98-019304
Series Volume Number
1
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
629.1/092/273 B
Lc Classification Number
Tl789.85.H53a3 1998

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