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  • Rocket Boys

  • The Coalwood Series, Book 1
  • By: Homer Hickam
  • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
  • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Rocket Boys

By: Homer Hickam
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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Summary

The New York Times best-selling 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.

©1998 Homer Hickam (P)2011 Simon & Schuster
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"A thoroughly charming memoir... [An] eloquent evocation of a lost time and place." ( The New York Times)

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