Rocket Boys: A Memoir

One of the most beloved bestsellers in recent years, "Rocket Boys" is a uniquely American memoir. A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, it is the story of a mother's love and a father's fears, of growing up and getting out. With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true.A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, "Rocket Boys" is a chronicle of triumph.Homer Hickam is the author of 'Rocket Boys: A Memoir' with ISBN 9780606189118 and ISBN 0606189114.