- Aerospace engineers, Rockets (Aeronautics), Biography & Autobiography, Biography
The #1 New York Times bestselling 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.With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam…
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Earnest, classical in form, nostalgic and resolved.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Homer H. Hickam
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 376
- Publisher
- Compass Press, Random House Publishing Group, Large Print Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440235323
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“UNTIL i BEGAN to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.”
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel *October Sky: A Memoir*, was a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller, is studied in many American and international school systems, and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels. His books have been translated into several languages. - Wikipedia
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