Rocket Boys
ISBN: 9780385333214
Systematik: R 82
Verlag: London : Random House Children´s Books
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Schlagworte:
R 82
Hickam, Homer H. Jr.:
Rocket Boys : A Memoir / Homer H. Jr. Hickam. - London : Random House Children´s Books, 2000. - 368 S.
ISBN 9780385333214 Buch kt.
ENGLISCH ; ENGLISCH SPRACHE ; MEMOIREN
Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir - a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother´s love and a father´s fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space... and who made those dreams come true. With 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, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam´s lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph - at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining.
von Homer H. Jr. Hickam