Sky of Stone: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0440240921 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 409 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Beautiful story Connie Jean Akins I loved every word of this book. It just carried me along deeper and deeper into this fascinating world of mining. There were so many interesting characters that kept pooping in and out. The growth of Sonny was a delight to watch.And thanks for the interesting real life follow up. It was the cherry on top!. "Coalwood's swan song" according to Mr. Joe. Through Homer Hickam's marvelous memoirs, readers have been transported to Coalwood, West Virginia, of the late 1950s - first in ROCKET BOYS (made into the film OCTOBER SKY), then THE COALWOOD WAY, and now SKY OF STONE.It's the summer of 1961. After his freshman year at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Homer wants to join his mother at her new house in Myrtle Beach, a coastal resort in South Carolina. But there's been a fatal accident back in the mine at Coalwood, and Homer's Dad, the mine superintendent, is under investigation by stat. Highly recommended A wonderful conclusion to the Coalwood trilogy.
There, Sonny’s father, the mine’s superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man’s death—and the townspeople are in conflict over the future of the town.Sonny’s mother, Elsie, has commanded her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. But before Sonny could reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother was spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. And as the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself changing in surprising ways, taking the first real steps toward adulthood. Sky of Stone is a memoir that reads like a novel, mesmerizing us with rich language, narrative drive, and sheer storytelling genius.. For Sonny, so begins a summer of discovery—of love, betrayal, and most of all, of a brooding mystery that threatens to destroy his father and his town. Cut off from his college funds by his father, Sonny finds himself doing the unimaginable: taking a job as
He expanded the article into 1998's bestselling Rocket Boys, filmed as the critically acclaimed October Sky (2001). Amid Sonny's travails with unrequited love, the track-laying competition and being stonewalled by his father and the locals when he asks anything about the death, state and federal inspectors arrive to investigate. Stuck in Coalwood, Sonny takes a difficult job laying track. From Publishers Weekly Retired NASA engineer Hickam became a minor mass market celebrity in 1994 after a last-minute 2,000-word filler for Air & Space magazine (he spent three hours writing about launching homemade rockets in 1950s Coalwood, W.Va.) brought an avalanche of phone calls and letters. Hickam (nicknamed Sonny) plans to read Robert A. 9)Forecast: A preview excerpt in The Coalwood Way paperback (Sept.), an author tour (including a keynote speech at the Ohio Library Council Conference), promotion at Coalwood's Annual October