ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir
de Hickam, Homer H. Jr
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+
- Librería
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Delacorte Press, 1998. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 364 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Coalwood; Sputnik; Mom; The Football Fathers; Quentin; Mr Bykovski; Cape Coalwood; Construction of the Cape; Jake Mosby; Miss Riley; Rocket Candy; The Machinists; The Rocket Book; The Pillar Explosion; The State Troopers; A Natural Arrogance; Valentine; The Bump; Picking Up and Going On; O'Dell's Treasure; Zincoshine; We Do the Math; Science Fairs; A Suit for Indianapolis; The National Science Fair; and All Systems Go; followed by an epilogue. The author's second book, this was filmed as October Sky in 1999, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Natalie Canerday, and a host of others..
Sinopsis
Rocket Boys (also known as October Sky) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a pure company mining town. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied in many school systems around the world.
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Detalles
- Librería
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 221678
- Título
- ROCKET BOYS - A Memoir
- Autor
- Hickam, Homer H. Jr
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Delacorte Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- americana;
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography and Biography;
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W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Sobre el vendedor
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Burlington, Ontario
Sobre W. Fraser Sandercombe
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