PDF-[EBOOK]-The Coalwood Way: A Memoir

From the 1 bestselling author of October Sky comes this rich unforgettable tale With the same dazzling storytelling that distinguished his first memoir Homer Hickam takes us deeper into the soul of his West Virginia hometown at a moment when its unique way of life is buffeted by forces of time and change It is fall 1959 Homer Sonny Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High and the town of Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads The strains can be felt within the Hickam home where Homer Sr struggles to save the mine and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople Sonny despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl finds his own mood darkened by an unexplainable sadness Then with the holidays approaching trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider bring unexpected changes in both the Hickam family and the town of Coalwood as this luminous memoir moves toward its poignant conclusion. 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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 little mining company town where the only things that mattered were coal mining and high school football and where the future was regarded with more fear than hope. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town of Coalwood and the boys who would come to embody its dreams. In 1957 a young man watched the Soviet satellite Sputnik shoot across the Appalachian sky and soon found his future in the stars. \'Sonny\' and a handful of his friends, Roy Lee Cook, Sherman O\'Dell and Quentin Wilson were inspired to start designing and launching the home-made rockets that would change their lives forever.Step by step, with the help (and occasional hindrance) of a collection of unforgettable characters, the boys learn not only how to turn scrap into sophisticated rockets that fly miles into the sky, but how to sustain their dreams as they dared to imagine a life beyond its borders in a town that the postwar boom was passing by.A powerful story of growing up and of getting out, of a mother\'s love and a father\'s fears, Homer Hickam\'s memoir Rocket Boys proves, like Angela\'s Ashes and Russell Baker\'s Growing Up before it, that the right storyteller and the right story can touch readers\' hearts and enchant their souls.A uniquely endearing book with universal themes of class, family, coming of age, and the thrill of discovery, Homer Hickam\'s Rocket Boys is evocative, vivid storytelling at its most magical.In 1999, Rocket Boys was made into a Hollywood movie named October Sky starring Chris Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern. October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys. It is also used in a period radio broadcast describing Sputnik 1 as it crossed the \'October sky\'. Homer Hickam stated that Universal Studios marketing people got involved and they just had to change the title because, according to their research, women over thirty would never see a movie titled Rocket Boys so Universal Pictures changed the title to be more inviting to a wider audience. The book was later re-released with the name October Sky in order to capitalize on interest in the movie. Ms. Bowling – thank you. Name:. Key questions:. Memoir writing. What is a memoir? . How . does a memoir differ from an autobiography? . What . is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?.