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    Sky of Stone: A Memoir
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    Sky of Stone: A Memoir

    Written by Homer Hickam

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    In the summer of '61, Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is 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. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man's death. Sonny's mother, Elsie, has commanded her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. But within hours of his arrival, Sonny realizes two things: His father, always cold and distant with his second son, doesn't want him there... and his parents' marriage has begun to unravel. For Sonny, so begins a summer of discovery - a time when he will learn about love, loss, and a closely guarded secret that threatens to destroy his father and his town. As the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself changing in surprising ways, taking the first real steps toward adulthood. But it's a journey he can make only by unraveling the story of a man's death and a father's secret - the mysteries that lie at the heart of Coalwood.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543612301
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    Sky of Stone: A Memoir
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    Homer Hickam

    Homer Hickam (also known as Homer H. Hickam, Jr.) is the bestselling and award-winning author of many books, including the #1 New York Times memoir Rocket Boys, which was adapted into the popular film October Sky. A writer since grade school, he is also a Vietnam veteran, a former coal miner, a scuba instructor, an avid amateur paleontologist, and a retired engineer. He lives in Alabama and the Virgin Islands.

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    • 5/5
      Awesome story, very interesting and entertaining I had fun listening to the dialogs
    • 4/5
      Homer Hickam continues to astound me with the touching and funny and marvelous writing he does about his life as a coal town "boy". This episode, the last in his trilogy about Coalwood, WV, is set the summer of 1962. This is the summer after his first year of college and it is an amazing tale involving secrets, lies, growing and learning. Sonny (Homer's boyhood nickname) does most of the growing and spends a lot of time trying to uncover the secrets and the lies. Anyone who wants to see the good in life, even in hard times, should read this trilogy - it is a wonderful journey from someone who went from a coal mine in West Virginia to an engineer for NASA who has traveled the world.
    • 4/5
      I picked up the first book in this series because I was interested in the rocketry story. By the time I got to this one, I was in it for the coal and the West Virginia town of Coalwood. I felt like I had lived Homer Hickam's adolescent life after reading his trilogy. Change seems to happen so slowly, then one day you look back and realize you are someone else. I'll never forget it, and I will read Mr. Hickam's non-autobiographical books.
    • 5/5
      After completing a rigorous freshman year at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Homer Hickam plans to relax at Myrtle Beach with his mother. His mother urges Homer to stay in Coalwood. His father is facing some serious mining issues; however, Dad doesn't want Homer's help. Homer's relationship with his father remains strained. Against his parents' wishes, Homer takes a summer job in the Coalwood mines. His father warns him, "You'll get the jobs no one else wants." Homer moves into the miners' club house where he has to pay for meals, clothes, rent and mining equipment. He has little money left at the end of the month. Homer's job consists of removing and replacing track, as well as, a variety of other tasks; he builds muscle and character. He develops a crush on Rita, a junior engineer. Throughout his college summers, Homer continues to work in the mines. This memoir is a poignant journey of a young man's personal development and an in-depth look at the coal mining industry.
    • 4/5
      Homer Hickam grew up in a West Virginia mining town. He wasn't a miner, nor a football player, as was everyone else in the twon. He and his friends played with rockets. When he went away to study engineering, there was an accident at the mines. His father was being blamed for the death of man. Homer's life was disrupted as he went home to try and help.This story continues from October Sky in the story of Homer Hickam, but the book stands well on its own. We meet the characters, and understand some of the sociology of a small mining town and its issues. The story is a mystery, unraveling the events leading to the death of one of the mining supervisors. Although, I don't think the reader can solve the mystery himself, it is a good mystery, and an interesting anecdote in the life of Homer "Sonny" Hickam.