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Rocket Boys

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ISBN-10: 038533320X

ISBN-13: 9780385333207

Edition: N/A

Authors: Homer Hickam, Homer H. Hickam

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"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town 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. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at least in spirit, could mend it on the same night. And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added. The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine." So begins Homer "Sonny" Hickam Jr.'s extraordinary memoir of life in Coalwood, West Virginia-a hard-scrabble…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/15/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Homer Hickam (tambi�n conocido como Homer H. Hickam, Jr.) es el galardonado autor  best seller  de muchos libros, incluyendo la memoria n�mero uno del  New York Times   Rocket Boys , que se convirti� en la aclamada pel�cula Cielo de octubre . Ha sido un escritor desde que asist�a a la escuela. Es un veterano de guerra de Vietnam, fue minero de carb�n, instructor de buceo, ï¿½vido paleont�logo novato, e ingeniero retirado. Vive en Alabama y en las Islas V�rgenes.

Coalwood
Sputnik
Mom
The Football Fathers
Quentin
Mr. Bykovski
Cape Coalwood
Construction of the Cape
Jake Mosby
Miss Riley
Rocket Candy
The Machinists
The Rocket Book
The Pillar Explosion
The State Troopers
A Natural Arrogance
Valentine
The Bump
Picking Up and Going On
O'Dell's Treasure
Zincoshine
We Do the Math
Science Fairs
A Suit for Indianapolis
The National Science Fair
All Systems Go
Epilogue