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ROCKET BOYS by Homer Hickam 1998 Hardcover book SIGNED October Sky *skuM3
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“Very good, light wear, signed by author, see pics”
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Very good, light wear, signed by author, see pics”
- 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
- 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
About this product
Product Information
"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
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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