Rocket Boys: A Memoir (CD-Audio)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Rocket Boys In 1957, when 14-year-old Homer Hickam, a.k.a. Sonny, watches Sputnik fly over his hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia, his life is changed forever. Knowing he wants to be part of the space race, Sonny and his friends, set out to learn as much as they can about launching rockets. Soon, these Rocket Boys wind up enlisting the help of everyone in town. Set against a backdrop of miners' strikes, the
Full description- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER AUDIO
- Published: 05 December 2006
- Format: CD-Audio
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military | Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Autobiography: Science, Technology & Engineering | History Of Engineering & Technology
- ISBN 13: 9780743565066 ISBN 10: 0743565061
- Sales rank: 527,232
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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.
