{"product_id":"rocket-boys-the-coalwood-series-1","title":"Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “nostalgic and entertaining memoir” (People) about a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space—the inspiration for the film October Sky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A message of hope in an age of cynicism. . . . Perhaps we all have something to learn from a half-dozen boys who dared to reject all limitations . . . and resolved to send dreams roaring to the sky.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaced 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible. Lush and lyrical, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir: A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, of a mother’s love and a father’s fears, and of growing up and getting out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ink Crypt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49014648733952,"sku":"0385333218","price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/2233\/9584\/files\/9780385333214.jpg?v=1784208639","url":"https:\/\/theinkcrypt.com\/products\/rocket-boys-the-coalwood-series-1","provider":"The Ink Crypt","version":"1.0","type":"link"}