October Sky - (Coalwood) by Homer Hickam (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published as "Rocket Boys", this bestseller--based on a true story--follows a group of boys in a small West Virginia town in 1957 as they light up the skies with their flaming rockets and dreams of glory. This edition includes 8 pages of photos.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The true story, originally published as <i>Rocket Boys</i>, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.<br></b><br>It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. <p/>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. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A great read...One closes the book with an immense feeling of satisfaction".<P>-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Homer H. Hickam, Jr., was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. The author of <b>Torpedo Junction</b><i>, </i> a Military History Book of the Month Club selection, as well as numerous articles for such publications as <i>Smithsonian Air and Space</i> and <i>American History Illustrated, </i> he is a NASA payload training manager for the International Space Program and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
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