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Zusatztext "A thoroughly charming memoir . . . [An] eloquent evocation of a lost time and place." -- The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Homer H. Hickam Jr. is the author of the bestselling The Keeper's Son and many other books, including The Coalwood Way and Sky of Stone. He and his wife and cats share their time between homes in Huntsville, Alabama, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Klappentext 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 beginning of the Cold War! and America's loss of innocence! this book reads like a novel. Zusammenfassung 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.
