EAN: 9780440235507

OCTOBER SKY - HOMER HICKAM TASCHENBUCH

The true story  originally published as Rocket Boys   that inspired the Universal Pictures
film.   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.

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