Rocket Boys: A Memoir
by:
Homer Hickam (author)
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir -- a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into...
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir -- a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space...and who made those dreams come true. Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a marvelously entertaining chronicle of triumph.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780743565066 (0743565061)
ASIN: 743565061
Publish date: December 5th 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Minutes: 4
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Science,
Space,
Biography Memoir
Series: Coalwood
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch That could act as a summary to the book. At fourteen-years-old Homer Hickam was an average student with no real ambition in a dying town--and then in 1957 Sputnick swept over the October skies of West Virginia. It inspire...
This book left me with a really good feeling. It reminds me of the movie, Stand By Me. This story is about a group of young boys that are from a small town - and they end up doing great things. Of course, no one expects them to do anything but work in the coal mines. This group of boys aspire to...
This is a great coming-of-age story about a group of boys in a backwoods mining town who dream of becoming rocket scientists. Uplifting but not too syrupy sweet.
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