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Rocket Boys

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Auteur(s): Homer Hickam
Narrateur(s): Beau Bridges
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 Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown 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....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 hardscrabble little company town where the only things that mattered were coal mining and high-school football. The son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to push her son to a better life, Sonny fell in with a group of misfits for whom the future looked uncertain. But in 1957, after watching the Soviet Satellite Sputnik streak across the sky, Sonny and his teenage friends took their future into their own hands, changing their lives and their town forever.
Looking back after a distinguished NASA career that fulfilled his boyhood ambition, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking listeners into the life of the little mining town and the boys who came to embody both its tensions and its dreams. With the help -- and sometimes hindrance -- of the people of Coalwood, the Rocket Boys learn not only how to turn mine scraps into rockets that soar miles into the heavens, but how to find hope in a town that progress is passing by.
In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to set their sights on the stars -- and saw a future that the nation was just beginning to imagine.©1998 Homer J. Hickam, Jr., All Rights Reserved; (P)1998 Simon & Schuster Inc., All Rights Reserved; AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc. Astronomie et science de l’espace Professionnels et universitaires Science Science et technologie Astronomie

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There are a number of reasons for why I enjoyed this book so much. Firstly, I think that Beau Bridges was the most perfect choice for narrating this story. I found myself identifying with Homer on so many things mentioned in his story. Homer is a few years older than I am, but I remember my brother and I turning off the kitchen lights, the porch lights and sitting on the back step looking into the night sky and seeing Sputnik. I also came to realize that people are more the same than they are different. Homer and I were raised in small towns separated by thousands of miles and yet we both grew up with friends, using our imagination to play games (in my case, cops and robbers, GI Joe in a wooded area on the edge of town). I guess, what I am trying to say is that, listening to Rocket Boys, brought back memories to me of where I was raised and the friends that I grew up with.

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