Description
The number one New York Times bestselling memoir that impressed the movie October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—An impressive, luminous tale of coming of age on the break of day of the Nineteen Sixties, of a mom’s love and a father’s fears, of a bunch of younger males who dreamed of launching rockets into outer house . . . and who made the ones desires come actual.
With the grace of a herbal storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a heat, brilliant portrait of the cruel West Virginia mining the town of his early life, evoking a time of innocence and promise, while the rest used to be imaginable, even in an organization the town that swallowed its males alive. A tale of romance and loss, of rising up and getting out, Homer Hickam’s lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph—without delay exquisitely written and marvelously interesting.
Now with 8 pages of pictures.
A quantity-one New York Instances bestseller in mass marketplace, dropped at the monitor within the acclaimed movie October Sky, Homer Hickam’s memoir, nominated for the Nationwide E-book Critics Circle Award, involves business paperback with an all-new photograph insert.
One of essentially the most cherished bestsellers in latest years, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir. An impressive, luminous tale of coming of age on the finish of the Nineteen Fifties, it’s the tale of a mom’s love and a father’s fears, of rising up and getting out. With the grace of a herbal storyteller, Homer Hickam seems again after a prominent NASA profession to inform his personal actual tale of rising up in a death coal the town and of the way, in opposition to the percentages, he made his desires of launching rockets into outer house come actual.
A tale of romance and loss and a willing portrait of existence at an atypical element in American historical past, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph.
