Sky of Stone
Oct 2002 ¡ Coalwood Book 3 ¡ Sold by Dell
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys and The Coalwood Way transports us back to his West Virginia hometown and the summer that nearly destroyed the close-knit community in this âbeautifully executedâ (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) memoir.
âVivid and alive . . . Hickam has made [Coalwood] live again in his writing.ââThe New York Times Book Review
In the summer of â61, Homer âSonnyâ Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped: the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonnyâs father, the mineâs superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a manâs death. Sonnyâs mother, Elsie, has ordered her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. For Sonny, so begins a season of discoveryâa time when he will learn about love, loss, and a closely guarded secret that threatens to destroy his father and his town.
As the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself taking the first real steps toward manhood. But itâs a journey he can make only by unraveling the story of a manâs death and a fatherâs secretâthe mysteries that lie at the very heart of Coalwood.
âVivid and alive . . . Hickam has made [Coalwood] live again in his writing.ââThe New York Times Book Review
In the summer of â61, Homer âSonnyâ Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped: the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonnyâs father, the mineâs superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a manâs death. Sonnyâs mother, Elsie, has ordered her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. For Sonny, so begins a season of discoveryâa time when he will learn about love, loss, and a closely guarded secret that threatens to destroy his father and his town.
As the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself taking the first real steps toward manhood. But itâs a journey he can make only by unraveling the story of a manâs death and a fatherâs secretâthe mysteries that lie at the very heart of Coalwood.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rocket Boys and The Coalwood Way transports us back to his West Virginia hometown and the summer that nearly destroyed the close-knit community in this âbeautifully executedâ (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) memoir.
âVivid and alive . . . Hickam has ...
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January 28, 2020
I have read Rocket Boys đ /October Sky several times and still enjoy it. I finally got around to the sequels, This story is just as good as the first. Hickam brings the old mining town back to life, from the perspective of a college boy who has been away and come back. He is a talented story teller. I look forward to reading anything he has published.
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Homer H. Hickam Jr. was born in 1943 in Coalwood, Va. and earned a degree in industrial engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1964. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1972, rising to the rank of captain. Hickam also served as an engineer at the Army Missile Command in Huntsville, Ala. and with the Army Corps of Engineers in West Germany. He has been with NASA since 1981. Homer Hickam is a rare combination of practicing scientist and literate storyteller. As a NASA trainer he has taught astronauts to walk on the moon. As an author he has written a poignant, personal memoir about how he became an aerospace engineer. In Rocket Boys (1998) Hickam tells how his fascination with rockets began in the 50s Sputnik space race, developed into a teenage rocket club, and led to Hickam's winning a gold and a silver medal at the National Science Fair in 1960. His inspiring story, told with honesty and humor, had its beginnings as an article in Smithsonian's Air and Space magazine in 1994 and is being adapted as a motion picture. Hickam's other book Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942 (1989) is also praised as a literary achievement. It is a fascinating, fast-paced narrative that draws on his background as a scuba diver and explorer of sunken ships. Hickam has also written several shipwreck articles for major magazines.
Homer H. Hickam Jr. was born in 1943 in Coalwood, Va. and earned a degree in industrial engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1964. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1972, rising to the rank of captain. Hickam also served as an engineer at the Army Missile Command in Huntsville...
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