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ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir

ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir

ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir

ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir

by Hickam, Homer H. Jr

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New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 364 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Coalwood; Sputnik; Mom; The Football Fathers; Quentin; Mr Bykovski; Cape Coalwood; Construction of the Cape; Jake Mosby; Miss Riley; Rocket Candy; The Machinists; The Rocket Book; The Pillar Explosion; The State Troopers; A Natural Arrogance; Valentine; The Bump; Picking Up and Going On; O'Dell's Treasure; Zincoshine; We Do the Math; Science Fairs; A Suit for Indianapolis; The National Science Fair; and All Systems Go; followed by an epilogue. The author's second book, this was filmed as October Sky in 1999, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Natalie Canerday, and a host of others..

Synopsis

Rocket Boys (also known as October Sky) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a pure company mining town. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied in many school systems around the world.

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W. Fraser Sandercombe CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir
Author
Hickam, Homer H. Jr
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1998
Size
8vo
Keywords
americana;
Bookseller catalogs
Autobiography and Biography;

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