Sky of Stone

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Homer Hickam is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller October Sky as well as the acclaimed follow-up to October Sky, The Coalwood Way. He is also the author of Back to the Moon and Torpedo Junction, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space and American History Illustrated. Hickam begins his latest memoir, the third installment of his Coalwood series, in 1961, when he is nearing his first summer break from college. He wants to visit his mother at her new summer place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but she orders him back to their small hometown of Coalwood, West Virginia, where his father has been accused of causing another miner's death in a gas blowout. Once there, Hickam realizes he's persona non grata and ends up angering his inattentive, distant and furiously anti-union father even more by joining the union and working in the mine. Hickam's memoir is paced like a novel, and he writes characters and situations that seem tailor-made for Hollywood, making it easy to forget that the book is autobiographical.

Author / Editor: Hickam, Homer

Category: General Fiction

ISBN: 9780440334477

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