Rocket Boys, Homer Hickham
Rocket Boys, Homer Hickham
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Rocket Boys

Author: Homer Hickham

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 13 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/08/2011


Synopsis

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.

With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph—at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining.

About Homer Hickham

Homer Hickam is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His memoir Rocket Boys was a New York Times bestseller and the basis for the film October Sky.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Camie

The story of Homer Hickam who while growing up in now extinct Coalwood, West Virginia, forms a group of higher reaching miner's son's who become proficient backyard rocket launchers and provide much needed hope to the entire town. If you're of an age to remember Sputnik and the great arms race and e......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

Homer Hickam Jr. Homer Hickam Jr. is an American author, a Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer. In this memoir, Hickam describes his coming of age in Coalwood, West Virginia. ***** When Homer Hickam Jr. (nicknamed Sonny) is a boy in Coalwood, West Virginia in the mid-1900s, it's a 'company......more