October Sky: a Memoir - Homer Hickam - Books - Perfection Learning - 9780780799981 - February 1, 1999
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October Sky: a Memoir

Homer Hickam

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October Sky: a Memoir

The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.

It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying.

Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. The introspective son of the mine?s superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive.

As the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never be the same.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 1, 1999
ISBN13 9780780799981
Publishers Perfection Learning
Pages 428
Dimensions 108 × 33 × 173 mm   ·   249 g
Language English  

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